Lake Erie Waterkeeper

Lake Erie Keepers Song video

Song written and sung by Pat Dailey

LAKE ERIE WATERKEEPER Saving Our Great Lake Erie

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Current Events and Information

Lakes Erie and Superior are forecasted to both rise 4 inches above the May 14th’s level. Using the June 14th water level forecast, all lakes are predicted to have higher levels than last year by 10-13 inches, with Ontario forecasted to be 27 inches above last year’s level. 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 July 11 at Toledo Yacht Club 7 pm. All welcome. Scott Carpenter and Tim Schuetter from Toledo Lucas County Metroparks will speak on the parks and algae followed by Lake Erie Round Table discussion.
The recovering Cuyahoga River was celebrated last weekend – waterkeeper partner Share the River had over 200 paddlers on the Cuyahoga. Blazing Paddles – amazing event https://youtu.be/QLmTtTzG6_8
At the Cuyahoga event Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave a great speech on how the US made laws to protect water and gave the history of the Waterkeeper Alliance which Lak Erie Waterkeeper is a member of. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=405808970023649&id=505187592921503
LAKE ERIE FORECAST FOR SEVERE ALGAE BLOOM in 2019
https://nccospublicstor.blob.core.windows.net/hab-data/bulletins/lake-erie/current/bulletin_current.pdf
NOAA is forecasting that the algae will be a lot worse in 2019. This is based on phosphorous monitors in the Maumee watershed.
A public meeting has been scheduled July 25 in Van Wert for the proposed expansion of 4800 hogs in the Maumee Watershed
https://agri.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/oda/divisions/livestock-environmental-permitting/news-and-events/pine%2Bvalley%2Branch%2Bpublic%2Bmeeting%2Bnotice
Adding swine means adding manure which then adds phosphorous and nitrogen to the land. All of the manure from this operation will be land applied.
Manure - Lake Erie - Ohio policy troubling Ohio is permitting 4800 more hogs and all their manure in the Maumee Lake Erie watershed while paying farmers to grow a fall small fall grain crop(good) that can apply manure at phosphorous levels that exceed crop need(bad) Read More