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Community involvement and public participation are an essential part of EGLE’s mission, vision, and values.
SARA Title III establishes requirements regarding emergency planning and "Community Right-to-Know" reporting on hazardous and toxic chemicals for federal, state, local, and tribal governments, as well as regulated facilities.
Resources and information on utilizing RRD's data exchange and the Inventory of Facilities.
An interactive map displaying contaminated sites throughout Michigan regulated under Parts 213, 201, and 211.
This system allows water well drilling and pump installation contractors to submit water well records.
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April 29, 2025
Three volunteers conduct macroinvertebrate stream sampling in 2023.
Want to learn more about a nearby stream or river? Do you care about how clean the waters around you are? Do you like bugs?
If you answered yes to any of the above, you might want to join a MiCorps Volunteer Stream Monitoring event.
Local MiCorps groups are always searching for more volunteers. To get involved, find a stream monitoring group near you and ask how you can help. Monitoring events typically occur in May and October and are available for all ages. Check Michigan.gov/MiCorpsEvents for some spring events near you.
The MiCorps Volunteer Stream Monitoring Program (VSMP) provides grants, resources, and training to enable nonprofits to engage volunteers in stream water quality and habitat monitoring through aquatic macroinvertebrate surveys and physical habitat assessments.
Aquatic macroinvertebrates are insects and other small animals without backbones that live in our streams and rivers. This includes dragonflies, damselflies, mayflies, stoneflies, snails, crayfish, and more.
These creatures are excellent indicators of water quality, because some macroinvertebrates are more tolerant to pollution than others. The types and abundance of macroinvertebrates found in a stream can be used to calculate a Water Quality Rating.
Currently, almost 30 VSMP groups statewide engage more than 1,000 volunteers a year.
Since 2005, macroinvertebrate communities and stream habitat conditions have been evaluated at 820 stations and entered into the MiCorps database. Several stations are repeatedly sampled twice a year, so there are more than 12,000 individual samples in the database.
These data are used locally by watershed groups that collect them to better understand the ecological health of the rivers and streams they strive to protect.
EGLE staff use the information as a screening tool when planning annual watershed monitoring plans to assess water quality in Michigan’s water bodies.
A consistently low Water Quality Rating for a stream or river can alert EGLE staff that more investigation may be needed.
Three volunteers pick through bugs at a stream monitoring site in 2024.
The MiCorps VSMP provides grants to enable local governments and nonprofits to conduct volunteer-based water quality and stream habitat monitoring through benthic macroinvertebrate surveys and habitat assessments.
In 2025, the program awarded $27,644 in maintenance grants to help support 10 VSMP groups’ efforts. The groups:
MiCorps is sponsored by EGLE and administered in partnership with Michigan State University Extension, the Michigan Lakes and Streams Association, and the Huron River Watershed Council.
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Save the dates for these NotMISpecies webinars in the coming months.
There are now 358 certified green schools in Michigan for the 2024-2025 school year – 15 more than the previous school year.
Percentage of materials recycled reaches new high for fourth consecutive year
While all Michigan households – homeowners or renters – can pursue energy efficiency upgrades, MiHER will prioritize households with incomes at or below 80% of their county’s Area Median Income (AMI). Across the two programs, households are eligible for up to $34,000 in rebates.
Program will support state climate goals, lower barriers to clean energy across Michigan
On Take Back Day, people in communities throughout the U.S. can drop off unwanted and expired medications at participating law enforcement locations in their area.
Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II will speak today – Earth Day – to more than 1,000 attendees of the third annual MI Healthy Climate Conference, hosted by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) at Huntington Place in Detroit.
EGLE is pleased to announce the 2025 EGLE Environmental Service Award winners. The prestigious award recognizes exceptional environmental projects in middle and high schools.
The Michigan Invasive Species Program continues to work with MSU and multiple local cooperative invasive species management areas to prevent the northward spread of hemlock woolly adelgid.
