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  • June 6 Ohio Dept. of Agriculture, Public Meeting on Two commercial digesters Paulding County 5:30 at Black Swamp Nature Center, 751 Fairground Dr. Paulding, Ohio 45851 .           Van Erk Fact Sheet  - 74 tanker trucks/day liquid manure to/ from 12 CAFO's in Ohio and Indiana: Sugarlane & Tully in Tully Township, Van Wert County, Wildcat in Benton Township, Paulding County, Gina in Liberty,  Van Wert County, MVP in Center Township, Mercer County, Heartland in Hopewell in Mercer COunty, LDT Keller in Granville in Mercer County, (Ohio) and all named generically Indiana Dairy in Monroe TWP., Adams County, Nottingham Twp., in Wells County, Liberty TWP.,  in Wells County, Nottingham TWP, Wells County, Jefferson Twp. Huntington County                                                                                    Paudling fact sheet -  truckloads to/from: Paulding Dairy, Paulding Twp., Paulding County, Flatland Dairy and Westside Dairy, Harrison Twp. Paulding,  Vandermade in Farmer Twp., Defiance County, Miller City, Palmer Twp., Putnam County,, Continental Dairy Perry Twp., Putnam County, Sun Mountain, Pleasant Twp., Henry County   
  • ​June 7 USEPA Public Comment Great Lakes
  • June 15 Waterkeeper meeting agenda to be announced
  • July 21 Blazing Paddles Cuyahoga River
  • July/August Help Lake Erie Boat Parade stay tuned for info
  • August 20 Sunday 6:30 Sunset Dinner Cruise Glass City Pearl - reservation information coming

​LAKE ERIE 2023 - A Year to get manure runoff reduced

Watching For:
  • Clean Water Act Total Maximum Daily Load(TMDL) Comments show Ohio EPA Plan to reduce Lake Erie Harmful Algae will not work because Ohio EPA uses the wrong measurment to track reductions(DIssolved Phosphorus) and fails to factor in the growing number of confined animal feeding operations that land apply untreated manure OEPA final to USEPA June 30 then USEPA to accept or ???.: 
  • Environemental Law & Policy Center ELPC Comments
  • Consultant for ELPC Liquid Manure Comments
  • Jeff Reutter Retired OSU Sea Grant Director TMDL Comments
  • Enviro Consultant, Was employed at Ohio EPA & California Air Peter Hess TMDL Comments
  • Toledo Metroplitan Area Council of Governments TMDL Comments
  • Lake Erie Waterkeeper TMDL Comments 
  • Impacts of federal ruling on State of Oklahoma vs Tysson et al that requires Arkansas poultry manure runoff reductions in the Illinois River that pollute Oklahoma Illinois River waters downstream Click here for court ruling A 90 day extension has been granted for Tysson et al to say how poultry manure runoff will be reduced
  • USEPA Federal Court TMDL Consent Agreement
  • Bad News - JBS , the worlds largest beef producer is relocating operations in Texas and Kansas to the Midwest with a recent 8000 cow request in the Maumee Watershed in Indiana with manure hauled to Eden, Ohio and Temeprance, Michigan! 
  • 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
  • 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 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 HABmailbox@epa.ohio and copy to sandylakeerie@aol.com

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