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How animal waste from factory farms contaminates Lake Erie

Mark Brush
/
Michigan Radio

 Our conversation with Pam Taylor

It's been two years sincedrinking water in Toledo was contaminatedbycyanobacteriain Lake Erie.Four hundred thousand Toledo-area residents couldn't drink the water fora few days.

 

That fired up Pam Taylor to start tracking how Lake Erie's been getting contaminated.

 

A big driver of the pollution comes down to two words: animal waste.

 

Taylor is a full-time volunteer with the Environmentally Concerned Citizens of South Central Michigan.She has been tracking the amount of manure produced by big factory farms in the Western Lake Erie Basin.

 

GUEST Pam Taylor is a full-time volunteer with the Environmentally Concerned Citizens of South Central Michigan.

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