Farmers Could Play Major Role in Reducing Lake Erie Pollution
Air date: Week of 05/05/2010
Story length: 06:18
Producer: Karen Schaefer
What's good for crops is often bad for water quality. Fertilizer washing into the Lake Erie watershed may be to blame for a persistent dead zone--an area where the water's void of oxygen, and can't sustain life. The Allegheny Front's Karen Schaefer finds that changes in agricultural economics may have stymied years of federal and state efforts to keep phosphorous out of Lake Erie, and other freshwater systems.
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