Lake Erie: Clean It Up or Admit It’s a Sacrifice Zone
It’s been five years since the August 2014 bloom that contaminated Toledo’s water supply for a weekend, leaving half a million without drinking water — an event that many compared to the 1969 fire on the Cuyahoga River at Cleveland. Where’s the outrage and action now? All we have to show for the last five years of “cleanup” for Lake Erie is hundreds of millions, if not billions, of taxpayer dollars spent on agricultural incentives, partnerships and research. But there is no plan to do anything serious regarding agriculture, in which a transformation is needed if the lake is to be restored.