An experimental project aimed at preventing harmful algae blooms and improving water quality in the Great Lakes is featured in the February 2022 edition of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers magazine, The Corps Environment. The project, known as the Phosphorous Optimal Wetland Demonstration, will use a 25-acre wetland test site in Defiance, Ohio to try to optimize absorption of phosphorous runoff that harms coastal economies and threatens human health, especially in Lake Erie.
The project is being led by the Army Corps’ Buffalo District and its Mississippi-based Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), in collaboration with the cities of Defiance and St. Marys, Ohio, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other non-federal partners. The project is funded by the EPA’s GLRI, which recently received a $1 billion investment from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Read the article and the full February 2022 edition of The Corps Environment by visiting:
https://media-cdn.dvidshub.net/pubs/pdf_62208.pdf#page=21
For more information about USACE activities supported by Great Lakes Restoration Initiative visit:
https://www.lrb.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Great-Lakes-Restoration-Initiative/