Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae.
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Deandra Jones prepares water samples, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, at the National Center for Water Quality Research in Tiffin, Ohio. Liquid fertilizer tanks sit in a concrete basin, designed to contain any potential leaks, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, at a farm in Forest, Ohio. Jake Boehler, field manager at the National Center for Water Quality Research, collects water samples from a monitoring station along the Sandusky River, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, in Fremont, Ohio.
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. For Kellogg, who farms 7,400 acres of corn and soybeans in Forest, Ohio, conservation efforts on his farm have long been a personal priority; he regularly visits Lake Erie with his family to fish and swim. But he became even more committed after a 2014 bloom that led“Once that happened, it got us into high gear,” Kellogg said.
“You can’t just do wetlands and that’s going to clean up Lake Erie," she said."Other things have to happen.”
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