Report shows how to say goodbye to harmful algal blooms Top scenario is adoption of agricultural best management practices By: Published on April 07, 2016 Jay Martin, an ecological engineer with The Ohio State University, poses next to the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio, in this 2015 photo. (Photo: Ken Chamberlain, CFAES.) COLUMBUS, Ohio—Harmful algal blooms dangerous to human health and the Lake Erie ecosystem—such as the one that shut down Toledo’s water supply for two days in 2014—could become a problem of the past. A new shows that if farmers apply agricultural best management practices (BMPs) on half the cropland in the Maumee River watershed, the amount of total phosphorus and dissolved reactive phosphorus leaving the watershed would drop by 40 percent in an average rainfall year—the a
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