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

TimBricker May 2024

Avoids permits by splitting acres and sends manure from Indiana to Ohio!!

Impact of Modern Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Confined Animal Manure Research shows manure water problems.

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) held a comment period from December 30, 2022, to March 8, 2023, on the Maumee Watershed Nutrient Draft TMDL Report.

This study finds the lakes overall will not lose water but highs and lows may be extreme​.

Beach warning notices

Two industrial digesters in Paulding County raise concerns about phosphorus, trucks and no air permit.

Two industrial digesters in Paulding County raise concerns about phosphorus, trucks and no air permit.

Lake Erie Algae Solution

MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (originally known as EOS AM-1) and Aqua (originally known as EOS PM-1) satellites. Terra’s orbit around the Earth is timed so that it passes from north to south across the equator in the morning, while Aqua passes south to north over the equator in the afternoon.

The Detroit District is part of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division and operates in concert with six other districts as a region. Established in 1841, the district covers 82,000 square miles of land in the state of Michigan and portions of Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota with 3,200 miles of Great Lakes shoreline. The district is headquartered in downtown Detroit with area offices in Detroit, Michigan; Duluth, Minnesota; Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan; and Grand Haven, Michigan.

Cyanobacteria Algal Bloom from Satellite in Western Lake Erie Basin

Schmucker JBS presentation June 2024

Flooding, erosion, and property damage are just some of the hazards seiche events on Lake Erie can cause, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been studying how often and how severe they can be.

Those salt piles we dump on our snowy Ohio roads are showing up in freshwater Lake Erie.

Research points to water treatment plants removing significant amounts of microplastics from Lake Erie water

Listen to remarks by Michigan Dept. of Agriculture say that too many animals too much manure must be addressed.

Includes information on the Bill as well.

The International Joint Commission created by the United States and Canada in 1972 to monitor and protect the quality of water in the lakes and rivers shared by the two nations has worrisome news for Lake Erie.

The state of Ohio is failing the citizens of northwest Ohio.

Worth a listen at 1.16 mark and 4.16 mark where Ohio says manure will be spread throughout watershed to take the place of commercial fertilizer

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, is urging the U.S. EPA to take a tough stance on Ohio's latest proposal to clean up Lake Erie and curtail harmful algal blooms.

A lot is at stake in Ohio’s efforts to reduce the phosphorus runoff that, year after year, feeds the sickly green scum of toxic algal blooms coating Lake Erie’s western basin.

Ohio, we have a problem. Year after year, the western basin of Lake Erie is plagued by toxic algae.

This notice announces the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final review and approval of the Maumee Watershed Nutrient (MWN) total maximum daily load (TMDL) submitted by Ohio EPA on June 30, 2023. EPA determined that Ohio EPA’s MWN TMDL satisfies all statutory and regulatory requirements of an approvable TMDL.

Antibiotics for humans, livestock found in waters flowing to Lake Erie

Fact Sheet: Maumee Watershed Nutrient Total Maximum Daily Load Report

Lawmakers silence Chris Jones, a prominent University of Iowa water quality researcher.

Ohio Domestic Action Plan 2023

Oversight highlights growing worries about accuracy of Bay cleanup data.