Ohio EPA releases draft TMDL for Maumee watershed
The implementation of the Maumee River Watershed TMDL is still months away, as Ohio EPA finalizes its version of the proposal.
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Healthy water is our state’s most important natural resource and Ohio’s farmers care deeply about protecting it. Across Ohio, farmers are taking up the call to work together to improve our water quality. As natural stewards of soil and water, farmers across Ohio know they play a significant role in protecting water resources for Ohio’s families, schools, businesses and communities. Ohio Farm Bureau, along with our agriculture partners, will continue to work together to find tangible solutions to the state’s water quality challenges and demonstrate how Ohio can simultaneously maintain clean water and productive farming.
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Visit the Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network website to learn more about on-farm practices and research being done in Ohio to improve soil health and water quality.
Videos highlight subsurface nutrient placement
Several farmers in northwest Ohio are using funding from the H2Ohio water quality initiative to implement subsurface nutrient placement on their farms.
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Our Ohio Weekly: Ohio EPA’s proposed TMDL for northwest Ohio
Over the past year, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has started to develop a TMDL for the Maumee River watershed to address algal blooms and the sources of nutrients that attribute to those blooms.
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Too much progress on water quality to ignore
Adam Sharp, Ohio Farm Bureau executive vice president, sent the following letter to the editor to The Toledo Blade in response to the Blade Editorial Board’s opinion piece, “Plan to protect Lake Erie needs teeth.”
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H2Ohio projects expand into Ohio River Basin
Projects will create wetlands, restore wetlands on hydric soils and/or enhance water quality at existing wetlands and floodplains.
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Conservation project offers peer-to-peer learning
The Farmer Advocates for Conservation project is training farmers to mentor other farmers in the Maumee River watershed.
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Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer: Stephanie Singer
Hoewischer and Stephanie Singer, agriculture outreach project manager at The Nature Conservancy, talk about the conservancy’s Farmer Advocates for Conservation Program.
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Forecast for 2022 Lake Erie algal bloom released
The 2022 algal bloom is expected to have a low severity index of 3.5, according to the final forecast from the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration.
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Our Ohio Weekly: Ohio’s 2022 Water Quality Status Report
Ohio Farm Bureau’s Dr. Larry Antosch, senior director of policy development and environmental policy and Jordan Hoewischer, director of water quality and research, share the results of the 2022 Ohio Water Quality Status Report.
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Ohio’s 2022 Water Quality Status Report released
The 2022 Water Quality Status Report highlights how signature water quality initiatives have had major roles improving and protecting clean water, one of the state’s most valuable resources.
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