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Nutrients (Annex 4)

Through the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (Agreement), Annex 4 (Nutrients), Canada and the United States (the Parties) have committed to coordinate binational actions to manage phosphorus loadings to the Great Lakes to combat harmful and nuisance algal blooms and…
The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement commits Canada and the United States to prepare and issue a Binational Strategy for Phosphorus Reduction in Lake Erie. This Strategy includes:An updated assessment of environmental conditions to guide nutrient management in Lake Erie…
To combat the growing threat of toxic and nuisance algal development in Lake Erie, the United States and Canada committed, through the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, to establish binational phosphorus load reduction targets for Lake Erie by February, 2016, and to…