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Field to Faucet making strides in improving Ohio’s water quality
initiative includes research, training and education, all designed to ensure safe drinking water while ... agricultural lands and municipal sources and to maintain safe drinking water for cities like Toledo.” Video: ... put $1 million in college funding toward the effort after harmful algal blooms caused dangerous ...
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Environmental Professionals Network
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/events
drinking water safe, address public health concerns and engage stakeholders in the process to reduce and ... Chesapeake Bay, Grand Lake St. Marys, and the City of Columbus. Efforts to monitor harmful blooms, keep ... mitigate harmful algal blooms will be addressed by the panel. ...
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Understanding Algal Blooms: State of the Science Conference
https://oardc.osu.edu/events/understanding-algal-blooms-state-science-conference
prevent and predict harmful algal blooms and how to remove their toxins from drinking water. Hosted by ... drinking water for two days in August 2014 due to high microcystin levels. Presenters will focus on how to ... Fourteen leaders in the fight against harmful algal blooms will convene in Toledo on Sept. 15 to ...
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Harmful Algal Blooms
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/resources/watershed-management/harmful-algal-blooms
monitoring, standards for algal toxins for public beaches and drinking water, and requirements for public ... Resources Council) about a new report released by OEPA: Harmful Algal Bloom Response Strategy. Gail explains ... up-to-date information on harmful algal blooms, go to www.epa.state.oh.us/dsw/HAB.aspx Download interview ...
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Harmful Algal Blooms Impacting Landowner Ponds and Small Lakes
bloom outbreak, and your animals need water." Once an algal bloom outbreak has occurred, Lynch said ... fact sheets are available that provide detailed information on the types of harmful algal blooms, how ... • Ohio Sea Grant's "Harmful Algal Blooms in Ohio Waters," at http ...
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Specialist hopes to demystify algal blooms during Farm Science Review session
that cause them, factors that contribute to blooms, and how to keep family and pets safe from possible ... September 4, 2012 LONDON, Ohio — Potentially harmful algal blooms, or HABs, have become more ... prevalent throughout Ohio in recent years. These blooms on public waters have drawn much attention in the ...
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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 ... many minds. Jay has the ability to bring people together.”—Bruce McPheron Safe water, productive ...
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Phosphorous
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1538
Blue-Green Algae/Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Bloom (HABs) ODH Health Assessment Fact Sheet- Pond Water ... can increase levels of bacterial and algal activity in water. Too much phosphorus in the water can ... cause algae to grow faster than ecosystems can handle creating an algal bloom. Phosphorous is also used ...
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Seeing (and using) the good in manure and keeping our water clean, too
algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie and other water bodies. The issue made headlines in summer 2014 when ... toxins from a western Lake Erie algal bloom caused a two-day water use ban in Toledo. Experts think such ... Called Field to Faucet, it aims to ensure safe water for all Ohioans while keeping the state’s farms ...
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‘Toledo was a wakeup call’: Dean announces new water quality initiative
of Toledo awoke to the news that parents could not draw water from their taps for their children. ... and to ensure clean drinking water across Ohio. Video: CFAES Communications. “Ohio State University, ... systems In early August, toxins produced by a harmful algal bloom in western Lake Erie caused a two-day ...