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Ohio State PLOTS is here! Download it today!
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2016-31/ohio-state-plots-here-download-it-today
and other water quality issues. The initiative began after the numerous algal blooms that occurred in ... Lake Erie, causing hundreds of thousands of residents to be without safe drinking water. Field to ... Faucet aims to keep farmers productive and profitable, while helping to ensure clean drinking water ...
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Algal Blooms 101
https://aede.osu.edu/news/algal-blooms-101
The harmful algal blooms that manifest on Lake Erie in the summer can be as murky a concept to ... blooms can have beyond the Great Lakes’ banks: Harmful algal blooms are capable of producing toxins that ... commonly known as blooms, resulted in a three-day shutdown of the city of Toledo’s water supply in 2014. ...
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New Ohio Sea Grant Project Helps Determine Lake Erie's Value to Its Residents
https://aede.osu.edu/news/new-ohio-sea-grant-project-helps-determine-lake-eries-value-its-residents
clarity, safe and clean drinking water, and recreational activities like fishing and beachgoing. These ... blooms at your favorite fishing spot?” “The drinking water treatment cost will be based on an engineering ... nature provides to humans,” according to Irwin – when negative events like harmful algal blooms are ...
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Algal blooms cost Ohio homeowners $152 million
https://aede.osu.edu/news/algal-blooms-cost-ohio-homeowners-152-million
algae at the beginning, when they first see news stories about the water being unsafe to drink,” Klaiber ... takeaway is that efforts to prevent and mitigate algal blooms have real, tangible benefits for Ohioans, ... happen if a severe algal bloom—similar in extent to the one experienced in 2011 which covered 45 percent ...
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FABE Researchers Receive $5 Million Grant to Study Runoff from Elevated Phosphorus Fields
it by the year 2025. Experts think that such a reduction will keep the lake’s blooms at safe levels. ... contributing to Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms. That’s the premise of a new five-year, $5 million study that ... a significant driver of the harmful algal blooms plaguing Lake Erie. The blooms are sometimes toxic, are often ...
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Ohio State Report Evaluates Options for Reducing Lake Erie’s Harmful Algal Blooms
the most effective approaches to combat algal blooms. Just as your local news uses models to forecast ... evaluating the ability of agricultural management practices to reduce phosphorus causing harmful algal blooms ... Education’s Harmful Algal Bloom Research Initiative, used five watershed models to help researchers determine ...
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Webinar: The Economics of Water Pollution Control: The Case of Harmful Algal Blooms
Basin. An overview of economic instruments to control algal blooms, such as taxes, water quality trading, ... algal blooms. In particular, the webinar will provide the following: A discussion of the economic ... dangers of harmful algal blooms. An evaluation of traditional conservation practices in the Maumee River ...
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Dr. Jay Martin discusses Harmful Algal Blooms with Senator Sherrod Brown
https://fabe.osu.edu/news/dr-jay-martin-discusses-harmful-algal-blooms-senator-sherrod-brown
ways to reduce Harmful Algal Blooms on Lake Erie with US Senator Sherrod Brown. Click here for the news ... clipping. Jay Martin FABE algae blooms Ecological Engineering ...
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Drinking Water Regulations
https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/aex-423
this, the United States Congress first passed the Safe Drinking Water Act in 1974. The act charged the ... ultimately responsible for providing safe water and complying with the regulations. Drinking Water Standards ... The Safe Drinking Water Act sets requirements for treatment, monitoring and reporting by public water ...
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Researchers: Toledo Water Crisis Impacted Perceptions of Lake Erie Algae Causes
water from the Toledo municipal water supply due to the presence of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie, ... growth of harmful algal blooms. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation through ... the source of the city’s water. The blooms resulted in the city water containing more than double the ...