Lake Erie Waterkeeper

LAKE ERIE WATERKEEPER Saving Our Great Lake Erie

Nov. 29 State of Lake Erie Comments Webinar 6:30 pm Register here
Dec. 15 Lake Erie Waterkeeper Holiday Dinner & Gathering at 6 pm Pearson Park Macomber Lodge Reservations Here Also Holiday Music with Dick McCarthy Erie Island SInger

Watching For:

Summer 2022 Lake Erie Waterkeeper Newsletter
Pass Resolutions asking Ohio and the US to classify Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation manure as a solid waste and banning additional new and expanding CAFO's in an impaired watershed.
Settlement of Clean Water Act Law Suit to reduce nutrients(excess nitrogen and phosphorus) causing Harmful Algae
Increases in manure in the Maumee/Western Lake Erie Watershed that continues to get bombarded with more and more Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations that land apply more manure than the sewage of all Ohioans.
Continuing progress to reduce commercial phosphorus fertilizer in the Maumee/Western Lake Erie Watershed by family farms - about a 40% reduction and growing)
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