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The H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program is hoping to get people to take photos for a time-lapse of developing wetlands, and then get more involved as citizen scientists.
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Public Health Muskegon County warned of the toxins in Muskegon Lake, but found no evidence of them at Pere Marquette beach, a popular spot on Lake Michigan.
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It's been ten years since Toledo issued a 'don not drink' order for its water system for three days due to cyanobacterial blooms near its water intake in Lake Erie. The blooms are not any worse, but they are not any less.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and university researchers put out the forecast each year. They're predicting the start of a visible bloom by early July.
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Michigan has a pilot program to restore a large wetland area to reduce fertilizer runoff from getting into Lake Erie because it feeds toxic cyanobacterial blooms that spread in the western basin each year.
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The cyanobacterial blooms that release toxins are dangerous. Researchers at the University of Toledo look to use a Lake Erie bacteria to detoxify microcystin.
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The plaintiffs allege the U.S. EPA failed to adequately intervene to control harmful algal blooms stemming from manure runoff flowing into Lake Erie.
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The State of Michigan is using $3.65 million to establish or restore wetland areas. Ducks Unlimited is administering the program. A request for proposals has been issued.
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Michigan won't reach the phosphorus reduction goal by 2025 as planned. It's uncertain when it might attain that goal to help reduce cyanobacterial blooms in Lake Erie.
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Environmentalists say the Ohio plan will not work because it doesn't hold agriculture responsible for the runoff from fields using manure from factory farms as fertilizer.