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Manure practices, not glamorous, can be a star for both food crops and water
fertilizer and manure is a cause of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other water bodies. Lake ... Erie will again have — or, at this writing, may have already had — a significant harmful algal bloom ... technologies that can help keep rivers, lakes and streams clean, said David White, executive director of the ...
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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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Field to Faucet making strides in improving Ohio’s water quality
Jay Martin talks about Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms and the Field to Faucet program ’s efforts to ... monitor harmful algal blooms in lakes and farm ponds. Conducting edge-of-field research that will compare ... put $1 million in college funding toward the effort after harmful algal blooms caused dangerous ...
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Study: Spreading gypsum on farms can help keep water clean, not green
of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other lakes. Gypsum, when spread on a farm field, ... Dick’s research is taking place on farms in the Maumee River watershed, Lake Erie’s largest tributary, ... and around Grand Lake St. Marys, which also has suffered from the blooms. To contact the scientist: ...
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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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Good news: Ohio’s soil phosphorus levels are trending down
western Lake Erie and other water bodies. To contact the scientist: Elizabeth Dayton at dayton.15@osu.edu. ... (go.osu.edu/Bawz). Phosphorus runoff from farm fields is one of the causes of the harmful algal blooms plaguing ... which came through the college’s Field to Faucet initiative, represent good news for Ohioans concerned ...
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Martin to lead Field to Faucet water program, has ‘ability to bring people together’
quality program. A response to last summer’s Toledo water crisis and the ongoing harmful algal bloom ... problems in Lake Erie and other lakes, the new program aims to ensure safe drinking water for all Ohioans ... Engineering. For the past 10 years, he has focused his research on the Lake Erie basin in concert with ...
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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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Important Issues in Water Quality and Nutrient Placement Conference
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/important-issues-water-quality-and-nutrient-placement-conference
a hot topic because seldom does a day go by without a news article on water issues such as algal blooms ... in Lake Erie or contaminated drinking water.” Topics to be discussed include: · “Healthy ... Extension, the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and industry experts in agriculture, ...