Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria that make up algae.
FILE - A vote here sign is seen outside a polling place during the South Carolina primary, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in Columbia, S.C. Months after the Democratic Party approved President Joe Biden's plan to overhaul its primary order to better reflect a deeply diverse voter base, implementing the revamped order has proven anything but simple. Party officials now expect the process to continue through the end of the year even as the 2024 presidential race heats up all around it.
Water flows along the shore of Lake Erie during an algal bloom, Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, at Maumee Bay State Park in Oregon, Ohio. A strip-till tractor, used to plant fertilizer deep into a field's soil, sits inside a garage, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, at a farm in Forest, Ohio. Soybeans grow on each side of a buffer strip, which are designed to help filter nutrient runoff from fields, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, at a farm in Forest, Ohio.
Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria to thrive: It’s about 30 feet deep, the shallowest part of the shallowest Great Lake, and it heats up faster when temperatures are warm. And it’s where nutrients from farm fields along streams and creeks throughout the basin eventually drain into the Maumee River, which dumps into Erie at Toledo.
“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. Near Sandusky Bay on the southwestern part of Lake Erie, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is working with other conservation groups to restore wetlands that filter nutrient runoff before it gets into the bay. At one site, engineers reconnected water channels through areas of former farmland to return the area to a wetland state. At another, island barriers are being built near the shoreline in addition to wetland restoration to aid filtration.
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