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Phosphorus reduction
Lake bill to go before governor By Larry Limpf News Editor news@presspublications.com
Rock the Block
Maumee Valley Habitat for Humanity teamed up with BP Refinery employees, their families, and homeowners, to revitalize the village of Harbor View. The village was packed with over 50 volunteers to pick up trash and overgrown brush during the “Rock the Block” event. Top left, Jeremy Erdmann piles up tires. Top right, Jake Siefert repairs a lattice. Bottom left, Rocko Vasko, along with his daughters Kelsey and Kaylee, plant flowers and an evergreen bush. Bottom right, Bob Hammer does carpentry work. See story on page 4. (Press photos by Ken Grosjean)
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Oregon to move forward with improvements Oregon has scheduled improvements for the South Shore Veterans Park area this year and next year after holding several meetings to gauge public input on redeveloping the park. The city has received professional engineering analysis, as well as ideas from the public on proposed features of a revised park. Ideas offered at previous meetings included a splash pad, gazebos, enhancement of the Haley Boardwalk, development of a natural beach area, facilitating the launch of kayaks or stand-up paddle boards, a fishing pier or short dock, sand volleyball, and relocating Fire Station No. 3 from its current location about a mile from the park to
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the southeast corner of the park. The project is still in the discussion phase, but there are some features the city will complete this year, according to City
Administrator Mike Beazley. Those include: •Improving drainage by raising and paving a half mile segment of the walking trail. The trail currently consists of crushed limestone. “In some places, we have drainage challenges in that area. There are places where we can bring it up a little bit higher to keep it a little drier,” said Beazley. “We’re also going to pave it, making it a better experience for people who go to the park.” •Install a pedestrian bridge over the Big Ditch Creek. “There’s a sledding hill out there. The pedestrian bridge would allow people to get between the walking trail area and the sledding hill,” said Beazley. Continued on page 2
A bill to allocate more funding for reducing phosphorus levels in Lake Erie will be sent to Gov. John Kasich by the end of this month, State Sen. Randy Gardner, RBowling Green, said. The Senate voted 33-0 Wednesday on Senate Bill 299, sponsored by Gardner, and a companion bill, sponsored by Steven Arndt, R – Port Clinton, is pending in the House finance committee. Sen. Gardner said Thursday he expects one of the bills to be on the governor’s desk this month. “Our goal is to have one of these two bills sent to the governor by the end of June,” Gardner said. “I think our sense of urgency on these bills should be equal to the sense of urgency we have to do more for Lake Erie.” Rep. Arndt, a member of the finance committee and a co-sponsor of House Bill 643, last week said committee chairman Ryan Smith informed him the panel would vote this month on the bill. The finance committee held its first hearing on the bill May 16 with Arndt providing testimony. Hearings were also held May 22 and 23 when the committee heard from proponents, including farm organizations representing grain growers and dairy, cattle, poultry and pork producers as well as the Conneaut city manager and the County Commissioners Association of Ohio. In 2015, Ohio, Michigan and Canada entered into an agreement to reduce phosphorus levels in the lake by 40 percent by 2025. However, current efforts aren’t enough to meet that goal, Arndt testified. He said HB 643 and the companion bill approved by the Senate, follow the recommendations of a 2017 white paper to meet the 40 percent reduction level. “That was the blueprint for the legislation,” Arndt said. “It covered four areas they thought would allow us to get back on track for the 40 percent reduction in phosphorus Continued on page 2
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