Erie

As Erie residents prepare to welcome a new King Soopers at the Nine Mile location off Arapahoe Road, Lafayette residents will have to bid farewell to the King Soopers less than a mile south along U.S. 287 and Baseline Road. Gabi Rae, Erie communications and community engagement director, said that there is no firm opening date for the Nine Mile King Soopers, but the town anticipates a late summer or early fall opening. Lafayette Communications Director Debbie Wilmot said that the Lafayette King Soopers will close as soon…

Retrieval of the box corer containing Lake Erie sediments, from which the sediment cores were retrieved for this study, aboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Lake Guardian, which is owned by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA). The R/V Lake Guardian is the largest research vessel in its fleet and conducts environmental monitoring across all five Great Lakes. Credit: Dr Euan Reavie Researchers at York…

Despite pushback from residents, the Supreme Court of Ohio yesterday approved a permit for the construction of North America’s first freshwater offshore wind farm, which will be cited in Lake Erie, around eight miles north of Cleveland. Residents of Bratenahl, a village in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County on the southern shore of Lake Erie, sued to stop the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation’s (LEEDCo) Icebreaker Wind, a six-turbine, 20.7-megawatt (MW) offshore wind demonstration project, which will test offshore wind…

Seismogram of the June 10, 2019, magnitude 4.0 Lake Erie earthquake, recorded at the University of Michigan seismic station in Ann Arbor. Image credit: University of Michigan In June 2019, a magnitude 4.0 earthquake occurred beneath Lake Erie just off the shoreline of Ohio, about 20 miles northeast of Cleveland. …