Lake Erie Research Paper

Did you know Lake Erie is called the “burning river” or “dead lake”? Sixth of Lake Erie's water was covered in toxic algae. Since so many algae is in Lake Erie it’s spreading to other rivers such as the Maumee river which now only supplies 5 percent. Algaes has now expand across the western Lake Erie shoreline from Monroe to the Lake Erie islands. Algae bloom has been a growing problem now since the 2000s.
Unregulated dumping of sewage and industrial pollutants with similar algae blooms and earned the nickname “North America's Dead Sea”. United States and Canadian governments responded by capping household detergent phosphates, reining in the factory pollutant and spending $8 billion to upgrade lakeside sewage plants. Algae are fed by phosphorus, the same chemical that American and Canadian authorities spent billions to reduce. “2002 was the last year that we didn’t have much of a bloom,” said Thomas Bridgeman, a professor at the Lake Erie Center at the University of Toledo. “2008, ‘09, and ‘10 were really bad years for algae blooms. And then., we got 2011.” 2011 was the wettest spring on the record! Donald Trump targeted for elimination of the $1 million project but, Congress has kept funded at $300 million a year. …show more content…
United States and Canada signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. In an attempt to lower the amount of pollutants entering the Great Lakes. The other is climate change.”Only heavy rains wash fertilizer off farmland since 1940,”Mr. Richards said,”heavy spring rain storms have increased by 13 percent.” Lake Erie especially now is a shallow western basin near Toledo. It must be scrubbed, to prevent this year’s algae. Spending the $8 billions of dollars did help Lake erie but it started coming back and even