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"Spring Rain, Then Foul Algae in Ailing Lake Erie" (front page, March 15) tells a compelling story about the plight of Lake Erie, but also touches on some of the solutions that are being pursued so that the worst does not become a reality.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department are taking tangible actions to provide farmers in the Maumee River watershed with the assistance needed to reduce algae blooms in the western Lake Erie basin.
Through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, our agencies are providing farmers with the financial and technical resources to carry out science-based conservation systems for controlling soil erosion and reducing nutrient loss from farm fields. So far, more than 260 nutrient reduction projects and assistance agreements with farmers financed by the initiative are under way in the Maumee River watershed.
These conservation systems allow farmers to tailor fertilizer inputs to crop needs, improve the health of their soil and sustainably produce food for the country.
JASON WELLER
SUSAN HEDMAN
Chicago, March 20, 2013
The writers are, respectively, acting chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Agriculture Department; and Region 5 administrator and Great Lakes National Program manager, Environmental Protection Agency.
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