Tag Archives: phosphorous

Vermont House backs fertilizer-restriction bill

Posted on February 24, 2011 | Leave a comment

This is a very positive move that will greatly help the cleanup of Lake Champlain and other natural water bodies in and around Vermont. For the same reason Pennsylvania does not have a bottle bill, I doubt such a positive law would ever even be introduced in Harrisburg.

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EPA tosses out Lake Champlain cleanup goals

Posted on January 25, 2011 | Leave a comment

All because of phosphorous — primarily entering the lake in stormwater runoff and from sewage treatment plants’ discharges. I just happen to be living, at this time, just a mile or so from a sewage treatment plant who’s discharge — into Little Nescopeck Creek, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay — is actually cleaner than the acid mine drainage-polluted water into which it is discharged. Sad, sad, sad. Read about the EPA’s decision in this newspaper article from Burlington, Vermont.

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Cleaner Lake Champlain is goal of new law

Posted on August 16, 2010 | Leave a comment

The lake faces a dim future, as it has from before the years I lived near its shore at the former Plattsburgh  Air Force Base. Why? Because of human greed and thoughtlessness, among other things.

Read about a law governing phosphorous in detergents.

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