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Subject(s)

• Eutrophication—Control—Erie, Lake [Browse]
• Detergent pollution of rivers, lakes, etc—Erie, Lake [Browse]
• Lake restoration—Erie, Lake [Browse]

Series

• Technology and the environment (Akron, Ohio) [More in this series]
• Technology and the environment

Summary note

Annotation During the 1960s, inland bodies of water in North America and Europe experienced a dangerous transformation. Nutrients were dumped into the lakes, causing chain reactions which severely impacted on lake environments. The excessive increase into inland waters through human activity, known as cultural eutrofication, emerged as a dominant problem. Massive algae blooms drifted in overnourished lakes, depleting oxygen, damaging fish stocks, and transforming the water's ecosystem. In Lake Erie Rehabilitated, historian William McGucken presents a comprehensive account of the most notorious international incident of cultural eutrophication--Lake Erie. With the assistance of the International Joint Commission, Canada and the United States diagnosed phosphorous as the primary cause of the problem and, in a unique cooperative effort, reduced input to the lake from municipal and industrial wastewater plants and agricultural lands. Public pressure and government regulation encouraged the reluctant detergent industry to produce alternative detergents and, finally, reduced the input of phosphorous to targeted levels. Lake Erie is now rehabilitated, but its history over the last three decades demonstrates the importance of maintaining an environmental balance. Meticulously researched and documented, this book will appeal to environmentalists, historians, and readers who seek to understand the Great Lakes ecosystem, environmental issues, and environmental regulation.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-311) and index.

Contents

• Cultural Eutrophication: An International Problem
• Eutrophication of Ontario Waters
• The Polluting of Lake Erie
• The Lake Erie Enforcement Conference
• The U.S. Government, the Detergent Industry, and Eutrophication
• The International Joint Commission's Reference on the Lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River
• Canada's Regulation of Phosphorus in Detergents
• U.S. Opposition to Detergent Phosphate
• Concerns about NTA Use
• U.S. Reversal on Detergent Phosphate
• Control of Eutrophication under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement of 1972
• Phosphorus Control under the 1978 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
• Control of Phosphorus from Nonpoint Sources
• Toward Phosphorus Target Loadings
• Lake Erie Eutrophication Controlled.

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ISBN

• 1884836577 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 1884836585 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 9781884836572 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 9781884836589 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

99053826

OCLC

42736300

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