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• Canada Lake Erie algae assessment 2024
• Phosphorus & Wetlands Lake Erie Watershed Research Peter Hess PE 
• USEPA is saying Ohio needs to decrease the amount of phosphorus allowed to be discharged but Port Clinton currently has a very low .1 phosphorus discharge - one of the best in the Lake Erie watershed. Meeting January 14 at 6:30 at Camp Perry
• Ohio EPA issues two year epa.ohio.gov/divisions-and-offices/surface-water/reports-data/maumee-river-watershedLake Erie Algae(TMDL) reduction report, but in report fails to inlcude information on untreated land application of confined animal manure which continues to increase. Ohio EPA ignores the influx of 100,000 cattle whose untreated manure is all land applied in the Maumee Lake Erie watershed. Ohio EPA and the Ohio Department of Agriculture issued violations for runoff and too many cattle that should have had a permit. Two permit applications have been submitted but in the meantime Ohio is allowing Schmucker is allowed to continue operations with no permit!
• Great Lakes Ice expected to be a lot more than last year
• Lake Erie lre-wm.usace.army.mil/ForecastData/weekly.pdfholding on water levels while Huron, Superior and Michigna are sltightly down and Ontario slightly up!
• Walleye hatches down yellow perch up in 2024 ODNR Survey
• Shipping ending on the Great Lakes
• See NOAA Satellite Imagery of Lake Erie daily - simply put in Erie, Year and Month - you can also see what algae looked like in prior months and years 
• Lake Erie Algae Phosphorus History Phosphorus Source Reduction - Schmucker JBS presentation June 2024
• Dr. Jeff Reutter Presentation on Lake Erie Phosphorus no gain May 2024
• Schmucker JBS Presentation TimBricker May 2024
• Schmucker County Road 1 Edon, Ohio gets waste from just over state line in Indiana - Avoids permits by splitting acres and sends manure from Indiana to Ohio!!
• Massive Cattle increase Schmucker/JBS Business Plan
• Campbell Lawsuit
• ​Lake Erie Meat Processing Plant USEPA Comments
• Chesapeake problem with ag census and other data to determine reductions
• Lake Erie Domestic Action Plan Google this link is doubtful
• Lake Erie Seiche Effect
• Microplastics Lake Erie
• Salt in Lake Erie water 
• Too much manure a problem for state regulators
• ​HIgh Nitrate levels near Factory Farms 
• Healthy Farms Healthy Watersheds Bill, Kaptur(D) Ohio, Gallager (R) Wisconsin Bill  and info on bill
• Michigan Lake Erie Conference - December 2023 - Listen to remarks by Michigan Dept. of Agriculture say that too many animals too much manure must be addressed. 
• Blade editorial Ohio must address CAFO's and manure for algae to be reduced
• Maumee River Published Research shows confined animal manure runoff increases dissolved phosphorus discharges to Lake Erie 
• USEAPA orders Minnesota to address nitrate problems in drinking water near CAFO's 
• Confined Animal Manure Research shows manure water problems
• Blade Editorial on Local Controls and Confined Animal Operations​
• ​Manure hauling trucks ruining Wood County Roads
• USEPA approves Ohio EPA TMDL, letter, determination, attachments 
• OSU Algae Conference Recording - 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
• Cleveland Newspaper urges Ohio Congressional Reps to ask USEPA to take over Ohio failed Algae Reduction Plan
• Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur asks USEPA to take over failed Ohio Plan, Sandusky Register
• Ohio's Failed Plan USEPA Action needed Cleveland.com Reutter 
• Sign  petition  for USEPA to reject Ohio plan or send letter
• Ohio submits Erie TMDL to USEPA & Here is responsiveness summary to comments made
• Iowa manure issue heats up Circle of Blue article
• New study finds antibiotics in Maumee waters and adding CAFO's increase the antibiotics
• Ohio Beach Guard(Beach warning notices) ​
• Five Year Great Lakes Water level study finds the lakes overall will not lose water but highs and lows may be extreme​
• ​Two industrial digesters in Paulding County raise concerns about phosphorus, trucks and no air permit. Fact Sheet and Van Erk Digester Comments and Paulding Digester Comments
• TMDL Consent Decree​​
• Manure Fact Sheet
• Lake Erie Satellite Images
• Weekly Lake Erie Water Levels
• ​NOAA Coastwatch

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​Report problems

• 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 [email protected] and copy to [email protected]

​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 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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