States Agree to Cut Pollutants Behind Lake Erie Algae

<> States Agree to Cut Pollutants Behind Lake Erie Algae - Ohio and Michigan, along with Ontario, Canada, said Friday that they will work to cut the amount of phosphorus flowing into western Lake Erie by 40 percent within the next 10 years. MI Gov. Rick Snyder leading Great Lakes summit in Quebec City Leaders pledge water quality improvements for Lake Erie Western Lake Erie Basin Phosphorus Reduction Agreement - Through an adaptive management process, work to achieve a recommended 40 percent total load reduction in the amount of total and dissolved reactive phosphorus entering Lake Erie's Western Basin by the year 2025 with an aspirational interim goal of a 20 percent reduction by 2020