Lake Erie Waterkeeper

LAKE ERIE WATERKEEPER Saving Our Great Lake Erie

July 23 Blazing Paddles – paddle the Cuyahoga River – join in this amazing experience
August 11Lake Erie Waterkeeper In Person and Virtual Meeting at Toledo Yacht Club at 3900 N. Summit at 7 pm – Speaker to be Announced. Followed by Lake Erie discussion and updates
Virtual Meeting Link:
By Phone 301-715-8592
ID 881 8543 7278
Password 051799
Sept. 15 Evening Dinner Cruise about the Glass City Pearl – trip down the Maumee to Maumee Bay/Lake Erie around the Toledo Lighthouse

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