Lake Erie Waterkeeper

LAKE ERIE WATERKEEPER Saving Our Great Lake Erie

Report Algae, Illness, Dead Fish etc.
If a visual take a picture, email information to HABmailbox@epa.ohio and copy to sandylakeerie@aol.com

Good News – The Army Core predicts that Lake Erie levels with decline by 5” in the next month, St. Clair will be down 3”and Ontario down 10”. https://www.lre.usace.army.mil/Missions/Great-Lakes-Information/Great-Lakes-Water-Levels/Water-Level-Forecast/Weekly-Great-Lakes-Water-Levels/
Lake Erie Waterkeeper Meeting August 8 at Toledo Yacht Club 7 pm. All welcome. Sandy Bihn will talk about the Toledo Lighthouse and the Toledo Shipping Channel followed by Lake Erie Round Table discussion.
The algae is here and the heat is coming. But forecasters say there was a 30% reduction in phosphorous – that is 75% of the needed reduction. Why the big bloom?? LAKE ERIE FORECAST FOR SEVERE ALGAE BLOOM in 2019 https://nccospublicstor.blob.core.windows.net/hab-data/bulletins/lake-erie/current/bulletin_current.pdf
A public meeting has been scheduled July 25 in Van Wert for the adding egg washing of 7 miliion galllons for the 2.2 million layng hens. https://agri.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/oda/divisions/livestock-environmental-permitting/news-and-events/pine%2Bvalley%2Branch%2Bpublic%2Bmeeting%2Bnotice
Manure - Lake Erie - Ohio policy troubling. Lake Erie Waterkeeper has a petition that we can email you to ask that manure sooil phosphorous rules be the same as commercial fertilizer – less than 40 ppm rather than the 150 ppm allowed today.