Contact your Legislator
Contact your Federal, State, County and Local Elected Officials
An email, phone call, letter, facebook note, twitter – any way you can, please contact your elected official and ask that they take action to reduce the nutrients/algae in Lake Erie.
You can also ask that Ohio get involved with the Detroit wastewater permit up for review in Michigan in April 2012(the Detroit wastewater plant’s discharges are over 5% of the phosphorous in Lake Erie); ask for a ban on fertilizer(including manure) on frozen ground and ask for an end to open Lake dumping of Toledo shipping channel sediments. All of these contribute to the algae problem.
It would also help if there were continuous monitors for phosphorous, nitrates, and oxygen at the mouth of the Detroit and Maumee Rivers to get first hand data on the volume of phosphorous and nitrates coming into Lake Erie. The Maumee and Detroit Rivers contribute over 80% of the phosphorous to Lake Erie – each over 40%.
For a sample resolution that governments and organizations can adopt and send to Governor Kasich and the Ohio legislature click here.
For further information contact Sandy Bihn sandylakeerie@aol.com, 419-691-3788.
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Below is the contact information for your federal representatives. You may visit their web sites and use the contact features contained there or you may call them, Facebook, Twitter or send letters via snail mail to their respective addresses:
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Sherrod Brown, United States Senator; Ohio
338 Russell Senate Office Building Web: http://www.portman.senate.gov/public/
Jim Jordan, 4th District Ohio US Representative Web: http://jordan.house.gov/
Bob Latta 5th District Ohio US Representative
John Boehner, 8th District Ohio US Representative Web: http://johnboehner.house.gov/ Email: http://boehner.house.gov/Contact/
Marcy Kaptur 9th District Ohio US Representative 2186 Rayburn H.O.B. Washington, D.C. 20515-3509 202-225-4146 (Voice) 202-225-7711(Fax) Web: http://www.kaptur.house.gov/
Dennis Kucinich 10h District Ohio US Representative 2445 Rayburn H.O.B. Washington, D.C. 20515-3509 202-225-5871 (Voice) 202-225-5745(Fax) Web: http://kucinich.house.gov/
Betty Sutton 13th District Ohio US Representative 1519 Longworth House Office Building H.O.B. Washington, D.C. 20515-3505 202-225-3401 (Voice) 202-225-2266(Fax)
Steven LaTourette 14th District Ohio US Representative 2445 Rayburn H.O.B. Washington, D.C. 20515-3514 202-225-5731 (Voice) 202-225-3307(Fax) Web: http://latourette.house.gov/
James Renacci 16th District Ohio US Representative 130 Cannon House Office Building H.O.B. Washington, D.C. 20515-3516 202-225-3876 (Voice) 202-225-3059(Fax) Web: http://renacci.house.gov/ Email: http://renacci.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=58§iontree=3,58
Tim Ryan 17th District Ohio US Representative 1421 Longworth House Office Building H.O.B. Washington, D.C. 20515-3517 202-225-5261 (Voice) 202-225-3719(Fax) Web: http://timryan.house.gov/ Email: https://forms.house.gov/timryan/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm
MICHIGAN
Carl Levin, United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510-2202 Email: https://www.levin.senate.gov/contact/email/
Debbie Stabenew, United States Senate Washington, D.C. 20510-2203 Web: http://www.stabenow.senate.gov/ Email: http://www.stabenow.senate.gov/?p=contact
John Dingell, 15th District United States Reprenstative Washington, D.C. 20515-2215 Web: http://dingell.house.gov/ Email: https://dingell.house.gov/contact/email-me.shtml
Tim Walberg, 7th District United States Representative Washington, D.C. 20515-2207 |
