Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae. It’s about 30 feet deep, the shallowest part of the shallowest Great Lake, and it heats up faster when temperatures are warm. It's also where fertilizer from farm fields throughout the basin eventually drain into the Maumee River, which dumps into Erie at Toledo.
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Nutrient runoff from agricultural fields, mostly fertilizer, accounts for about 80% of the nutrients that flow into Lake Erie, and half of the nutrients reaching the lake arrive via the Maumee. “If all things stay the same and the climate changes in the way we sort of expect it to over the coming decades, then things will get worse,” said Nate Manning, the interim director of the National Center for Water Quality Research.
“Our yields have increased. Our fertilizer cost has dropped. Once you get hooked on something and you’ve proven it to yourself that it works, nobody has to pay us anything now to do it,” Kellogg said. Researchers at the National Center for Water Quality Research in Tiffin constantly monitor phosphorus in the water. Their data show that the phosphorus load into western Lake Erie is trending downward, but the 40% reduction target hasn’t been met consistently.But more funding is needed and more farmers must adopt conservation and nutrient management practices, said Emily Kelly, the agriculture and water coordinator for the Ohio Environmental Council.
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