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Calendar
- Ocotber 14 Great Lakes Water Compact and Western Water Crisis Register here
- October 30th WQillimas county Cour of Common Please - Details coming
- November 4 Ohio Department of Agriculture CAFF BOard Meeting Renoldsberg, Ohio 9:30 am
- November 4 Sun Mountain Public Meeting 6:30 pm Henry County Fair Grounds Ag Hall at 907 South Perry Street, Napoleon, Ohio 43545 Fact Sheet here Permit link coming shortly. This permit asks for an increase in dairy cows from 3200 mature dairy cows to 4200 mature dairy cows and an increase in calves from 1200 calves to 2900 calves for a total annual manure production to be applied to fields of 49.3 million gallons of liquid manure and 11,031 tons of solids. To discuss text Sandy at 419-367-1691
- Nov. 5 Lake Erie Waterkeeper Meeting 7 pm in person and virtual Toledo Yacht Club
- December 5th Holiday dinner and 2026 wrap up - details coming soon
Lake Erie Updates
- CAFO Policy Comparison Indiana, Ohio and Michigan
- Local Government CAFO Manure Resolution, Local Control, Permit Limits, Internet Access, Manure field management
- Sun Mountain Dairy Fact Sheet Sun Mountain Dairy Public Notice in Local Newspaper Increase in Dairy/Calves Manure Auglaize Henry County
- 2026 Lake Eri Algae Forecast - Big Bloom if more rain
- Manure Lake Erie Conference Blade
- Toledo Blade Article DeWine Water Bond
- Sandusky Register Lake Erie Conference Manure etc
- Seneca County Health Department questions Ohio EPA about Seneca Poultry weel within 300' of landfill
- Seneca Poultry Police Report Illegals January 2026
- Ohio chooses manure over water and fails to inform local government on setback Seneca Poultry Toledo Blade
- Toledo Blade Editorial on OPEA requiring $138 million Toledo Resevoir and recommending manure sources be addressed
- Seneca Poultry Resposiveness Summary from Ohio Department of Agriculture
- Seneca Poultry Permit to Operate and Permit to Install issued by Ohio Department of Agriculture
- Toledo Blade Article on Peter Hess, LEW Board Member University of Toledo Presentation on Manure etc
- Campbell Soup Maumee River Violations
- NOAA Lake Erie Hamful Algae Bloom Forecast
- Ohio Beach Advisories
- Great Lakes Water Quantities - Data Centers and more
- Lake Ere Watershed Hog Manure Spill Kills Fish and turns Poverty Creek red flows less than eight miles to Sandusky River
- Seneca Poultry 130,000 layer chickens and their manure less tha a mile from Sandusky River
News Resources
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Be sure to check back regularly to get our latest news updates.
NOAA Link provides the latest
Simply put in Erie, Year and Month - you can also see what algae looked like in prior months and years
Schmucker JBS Presentation
TimBricker May 2024
Avoids permits by splitting acres and sends manure from Indiana to Ohio!!
Ohio much worse than Indiana and Michigan on Confined Animal Information & Policies
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Lake Erie Information
- Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement/Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary celebrated in Windsor in late September 2022. The original agreement was prompted by algae and pollution in Lake Erie!
- Lake Erie water levels dropping, according to Army Corps of Engineers) in the next year. Read More Info.
- Western Lake Erie Report Card
- Counts, locations impacts from confined animal manure 2022 Environmental Working Group which followed the 2019 Report
- From Hogs to Harmful Algal Blooms, Patricia Glibert, University of Maryland - National report on Sources of Harmful Algal Blooms including manure
- Great Lakes Manure Management Report – International Joint Commission Water Quality Advisory Board
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