Canada-Ontario draft Action Plan to reduce phosphorus in Lake Erie

The government recently released a consultation document outlining a draft Canada-Ontario action plan intended to meet phosphorus reduction targets agreed to by Canada and the United States in 2012.

The report begins by laying out a series of questions that the government is particularly interested in getting stakeholder feedback on. It then details the history of the phosphorous issues in Lake Erie and a discussion of the current and changing ecology of the lake and the source of phosphorous loadings.

It examines a multi-faceted approach to improving the situation including:
Download the Plan at:
http://www.downloads.ene.gov.on.ca/envision/env_reg/er/documents/2017/012-9971%20ENG.pdf

Canadian Water and Wastewater Association