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Great Lakes Scientist says, “If We Lose The EPA, We Lose Lake Erie”
phosphorous run-off from farms that use fertilizers and manure. Click here to read more about Lake Erie algal ... At the 8 th Binational Meeting of the Lake Erie Millennium Network, 125 scientists gathered at ... warmest and shallowest of the Great Lakes: Lake Erie. One of the biggest threats the scientists are ...
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Report Shows How to Say Goodbye to Harmful Algal Blooms
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Harmful algal blooms dangerous to human health and the Lake Erie ecosystem — such ... Lake Erie Basin, where most of the dangerous algal blooms occur. Information from the study could ... a drop of this magnitude would keep algal blooms at safe levels for people and the lake. “With aggressive ...
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Jay Martin to Lead Field to Faucet and Global Water Initiative
COLUMBUS, Ohio – While some would say people are the problem behind Lake Erie’s harmful algal ... Engineering. For the past 10 years, he has focused on the Lake Erie basin, again in concert with researchers ... Environmental Sciences, which put $1 million toward the effort after dangerous microcystin levels in Lake Erie ...
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Cover Crops Can Improve Soil Health, Water Quality and Yields
is a cause of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other lakes. In August, toxins from ... a bloom in western Lake Erie led to a two-day drinking water ban in Toledo. “The use of cover crops and ... nutrients out of surface water including Lake Erie, Grand Lake St. Marys and Buckeye Lake will find that ...
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Testing a new way to kill harmful algal blooms
https://governmentaffairs.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/testing-new-way-kill-harmful-algal-blooms
a new technique for killing off harmful algal blooms in Ohio’s streams and lakes. The technology being ... blooms on entire lakes as large as Lake Erie, she said. But the technology could potentially be used to ... treat streams entering those lakes, including Lake Erie. “The sooner you can start cleaning the water ...
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Extension Educator Shares Expertise in Article about Microplastics in Lake Erie
in Lake County, recently shared some of her expertise about microplastics in a news article. ... data to determine how well the Cleveland Water Department and others who rely on Lake Erie for their ... Microplastics are the size of a sesame seed or smaller can be found in water, on land, and in the air. A grant ...
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Landscape Faculty/Student Design Collaboration Leads to Possible Patent
a forest of trees in Lake Erie, Toledo, to reduce harmful algal blooms. Two years later that collaborative ... prototype was based on its applicability. In 2014, algal blooms shut down the water supply to 400,000 people ... in the Toledo area. Those blooms, which now occur every year in many of Ohio’s lakes and reservoirs, ...
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Floating Aquatic Habitats
https://chadwickarboretum.osu.edu/research-and-education/floating-aquatic-habitats
to float a forest of trees in Lake Erie, Toledo, to reduce harmful algal blooms. Two years later that ... prototype was based on its applicability. In 2014, algal blooms shut down the water supply to 400,000 people ... in the Toledo area. Those blooms, which now occur every year in many of Ohio’s lakes and reservoirs, ...
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Algal Bloom Action Team Receives Outstanding Regional Collaboration Achievement Award
The North Central Region Water Network’s Algal Bloom Action Team has received an Outstanding ... learned about emergent harmful algal bloom research and facilitated outreach on the subject. Eugene Braig, ... senr.osu.edu/news/team-recognized-outstanding-regional-collaboration. ...
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Efficient Lawn Care Practices to Help Protect Ohio’s Waterways
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-5812
economy, and recreation. For example, the HAB of 2014 in the Western Basin of Lake Erie resulted in ... many water resources from small streams and ponds to regional lakes, rivers, and Lake Erie. Harmful ... algal blooms (HABs) can have a significant impact on water quality, which effects human health, the ...