An editorial:
Complaints already have been heard that the task force plan is too costly and too complex. But the Great Lakes are under siege from urban pollution, agricultural run-off, toxic hot spots stemming from short-sighted industrial development, and discharges from ships that have introduced invasive species like zebra mussels into the lakes.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050720/OPINION02/507200302
And a worrisome article yesterday about Lake Erie's dead zone(s):
CLEVELAND - Lake Erie's "dead zone" near here is expected to return in August, but scientists are more concerned about another such zone that is much closer to Toledo.
In a dead zone, there is so little oxygen along the lake bottom that fish cannot survive. Scientists have monitored the phenomenon in Lake Erie's central basin from Ashtabula to Cleveland for years, but 70 miles west, in the Sandusky sub-basin, the problem has worsened to the point that there is no oxygen at all.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050719/NEWS06/507190355
Posted by Dave at July 20, 2005 09:15 AM