CAFO issue, a driver of Western Lake Erie algal blooms, comes to a head at conference

Thirty years have passed since harmful algal blooms (HABs) began reforming in Western Lake Erie. In response, more than 11 years ago Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario signed an agreement promising to reduce Western Lake Erie dissolved reactive phosphorous (DRP) loading by 40%. In August 2014, the city of Toledo told its more than 400,000 water customers not to drink or even touch their treated water due to the presence of an algal toxin, microcystin.
Yet, former Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Laboratory Director Jeff Reutter said that progress to curb DRP, also known as total bioavailable phosphorus (TBP), has “not even been 1% yet.”

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