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  1. Field to Faucet making strides in improving Ohio’s water quality

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/january-february-2016/field-faucet-making-strides-improving-ohio

    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 ...

  2. Study: Spreading gypsum on farms can help keep water clean, not green

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/november-december-2014/study-spreading-gypsum-farms-can-help-keep

    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: ...

  3. Good news: Ohio’s soil phosphorus levels are trending down

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/good-news-ohio%E2%80%99s-soil-phosphorus-levels-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 ...

  4. Martin to lead Field to Faucet water program, has ‘ability to bring people together’

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/july-august-2015/martin-lead-field-faucet-water-program-has-

    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 ...

  5. 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, ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. EPN Breakfast Club

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/epn-breakfast-club

    reduce or prevent algal blooms and low-oxygen “dead zones.” Both the Ohio River and Lake Erie suffered ... record-setting algal blooms last summer. Speaking at the event will be: Jessica Fox, senior program manager for ...

  8. Online tool that helps protect water is now being made even better

    https://oardc.osu.edu/newsletter/oardc-report-newsletter/july-august-2016/online-tool-helps-protect-water-now-being-made

    runoff is one of the causes of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie and other bodies of water. To contact ...

  9. Ohio Phosphorus (P) Use by Crop Reporting District

    https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/anr-0144

    (OEPA, 2020). While Lake Erie gets the primary press with annual harmful algal blooms, water quality ... Western Lake Erie Basin. The Great Miami River is impacted by CRD 40 and 70, and CRD 50 represents most of ... issues and harmful algal blooms. A review of regional data of Ohio, the application of P as fertilizer by ...

  10. NE Ohio Field Day

    https://oardc.osu.edu/events/ne-ohio-field-day

    vortex the grape-friendly soil profile at the 25-acre station, which lies within the  Lake Erie American ... Ohio and the U.S. in general,” Kirk said. It’s so new experts aren’t clear how big of a problem it will ... be, but it’s already become an “issue of significance” in California, New York’s Finger Lakes region ...

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