Michigan Radio | By Lester Graham Published May 23, 2022 at 10:22 PM EDT An environmental group calculated how much Toledo residents and others pay for drinking water because of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. Cyanobacterial blooms can produce … Continue Reading…
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Michigan Surface Waters at Risk – 2020 Michigan NPDES CAFO Permit Revisions Threatened Livestock waste in Michigan’s surface water makes our inland lakes, streams, and our Great Lakes undrinkable and unsafe for recreation. Pathogens and parasites in livestock manure make … Continue Reading…
Another beautiful country summer day … except for the stench that can be smelled for miles around. Get ready, Lake Erie! You were hoping for fireworks? Sorry … you’re getting cowshit instead. Steady stream of manure tankers leaving Hudson Dairy, … Continue Reading…
Briskey draglining liquid manure on cut hay field, northwest corner of Posey Lake Highway and Beecher Road, Bean/Tiffin/Maumee watershed. Pee-eew, bottom-of-the-lagoon stench, wind blowing northeast right towards Posey Lake, just before 4th of July weekend. Moving on to the South … Continue Reading…
The state of Ohio appears ready to institute something environmental groups have been clamoring for since Toledo’s 2014 algae-driven water crisis: a Total Maximum Daily Load, or TMDL, for western Lake Erie. TMDLs are so-called “pollution diets” for ecosystems. They are designed to … Continue Reading…