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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].
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