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Lake Erie Calendar

• ​October 3-5 Great Lakes Commission Annual Meeting Maumee Bay State Park Oregon, Ohio 
• October 5, Lake Erie Waterkeeper Meeting Toledo Yacht Club 7 pm and virtual ​
• December 14 at 5:30 pm General Meeting Christmas Dinner, Music Macomber Lodge - Reservation information coming

​Lake Erie now

• 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

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

Hope decreasing for Erie to get help in 2023r:

• Ohio TMDL submission to USEPA super disappointing.  Fails to set goals for dissolved phosphorus that are needed and fails to address growing CAFO/Mega Farm/Manure issue.  Mean time Ohio is adding more and more livestock and additional land application of untreated manure.  USEPA can accept or reject Ohio TMDL in the next 30-90 days.
• 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

​Lake Erie Updates

• ​LEW News Summer 2023
• 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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