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78 Ohio St. L.J. Furthermore 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/furth78 and id is 1 raw text is: OHIO STATE LA WJOURNAL FURTHERMORE Combatting Harmful Algal Blooms and Saving America's Waterways SCOTT SUROVJAK* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ...........................................1 II. BACKGROUND ...............................................3 A. The Cuyahoga River Fire and a Turn in Environmental Regulation ...........................................3 B. The Distinction: Point Source and Nonpoint Source Pollution.............5........... ...............5 C. The Perfect Storm: Why Lake Erie Is an Ideal Place to Implement New Water Quality Laws ...................7 III. FIx WHAT WE CAN: IMPLEMENTING APPROPRIATE REGULATION.............9........... ...................9 A. Room to Breathe: Requiring Filter Strips in the Maumee River Watershed. ............................. ..... 9 B. Protection Beyond the Water's Edge: LandAcquisition and the Establishment of Environmental Protection Areas....10 C. What Lies Beneath: Efforts to Reclassify Agricultural Tiling as a Point Source Pollutant Under the Clean Water Act ............................. ..........11 IV. CONCLUSION. ...................................... .....12 I. INTRODUCTION On August 2, 2014, water sample tests from Toledo, Ohio's Collins Park Water Treatment Plant revealed a dire situation.1 Chemists at the plant * Staff Member, Ohio State Law Journal; Juris Doctor, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, May 2016; Bachelor of Arts, The Ohio State University, 2008. A special thanks to Drew and BJ Surovjak, who let the author spend childhood days on the boat docks in Port Clinton, Ohio casting lines, tying knots, and developing a passion for the Great Lakes. 1 Public Notice, City of Toledo, Ohio, Urgent Water Notice!, (Aug. 2, 2014), http://toledo.oh.gov/news/2014/08/urgent-water-notice [https://perma.cc/MU8A-P8BX] [hereinafter Toledo Water Notice]; see also Michael Wines, Behind Toledo 's Water Crisis, a Long-Troubled Lake Erie, N.Y. TIMEs (Aug. 4, 2014), http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/ 05/us/lifting-ban-toledo-says-its-water-is-safe-to-drink-again.html [https://perma.cc/7HTX- C4EZ]. Vol. 78 ] 1

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