Lake Erie Waterkeeper

LAKE ERIE WATERKEEPER Saving Our Great Lake Erie

January 13 Meeting at 7 pm Virtual Link
Call 1301-715-8592 ID 82599354285# Passcode 177919#
Speaker Sandy Bihn Presenting on 50 years ago Lake Erie & the Clean Water Act - and Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement followed by Lake Erie discussion
February 10 Meeting at 7 pm Virtual Link
March 10 Meeting at 7 pm Meeting Virtual Link
April 14 Annual Meeting in person at Toledo Yacht Club 7 pm & Meeting Virtual Link
April 27 Lake Erie Conference Registration and other information coming soon

Watching For:

Impacts of heavy Maumee/Erie watershed fall rains when a lot of manure is applied and spring weather in 2022 that will determine the algae in Lake Erie
Settlement of Clean Water Act Law Suit to reduce nutrients(excess nitrogen and phosphorus) causing Harmful Algae
The Maumee/Western Lake Erie Watershed continues to get bombarded with more and more Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations that land apply more manure than the sewage of all Ohioans.
The Maumee/Western Lake Erie Watershed is helped by family farms that use commercial fertilizer and are reducing the amount of phosphorus being applied to the fields - about a 40% reduction)
Progress on Erie Marsh protection - Lake Erie's silent gem
Thank federal and State of Ohio officials for funding and helping with sturgeon assessment for reestablishment in the Cuyahoga River
Watch for Judge Carr's settlement announcement on the Lake Erie Total Maximum Daily Load( a pollution diet) coming out soon
Thank local officials who are supporting the Lake Erie Executive Order supporting local government's need for phosphorus reductions to reduce costs in water treatment plant operations

Report Algae, Illness, Sick Animals, Dead Fish etc.
1-800-282-9378 or (614) 224-0946.
If you see discolored water in a ditch, take a picture, note time, date and location(best you can give). Text/call Sandy at 419-367-1691
If a visual take a picture, email information to HABmailbox@epa.ohio and copy to sandylakeerie@aol.com