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Northwood looks at new school By Kelly J. Kaczala Press News Editor kkaczala@presspublications.com
Ice cream social Pearson MetroPark recently hosted an ice cream social complete with crafts and music. Top left, Ruby Currier, Oregon, sings along with with blugrass musicians Vic Holly on banjo and Bill Marion on mandolin while Rob Turley, right, accompanies them on guitar. Bottom photo, Jacob Urbina and Ethen Barailloux enjoyed the kids’ games and crafts. (Press photo by Ken Grosjean)
Lake restoration plan on the table The Ohio Lake Erie Commission has scheduled two public meetings to seek comments on the latest version of its plan to address pollution and related problems in the lake. A draft of the Lake Erie Protection & Restoration Plan 2013 has been completed, including proposals the commission and its member agencies plan to adopt over the next several years to improve conditions in the lake and its basin. Meetings will be held Aug. 6 at the Maumee Public Library and Aug. 8 at the Bay Village Public Library. Both meetings will be from 6:30-8 p.m. The commission will also hold a webinar on Aug. 7 from 2-3:30 p.m. The plan is organized into 12 priority areas, including 10 from the plan prepared in 2008 and two additional areas: jobs and the economy and the management of dredged sentiment. Others are non-point source pollution, invasive species, water withdrawals, toxic pollutants, habitat and species, coastal health, and areas of concern. Agencies applying for grants are ex-
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pected to indicate which objective in the plan their work will address. In 1987, the United States and Canada committed to restoring the most degraded portions of the Great Lakes basin. Working through the International Joint Commission, the Great Lakes states and provinces designated 43 areas of concern, including 26 in United States waters and five in binational waterways. AOCs were identified based on 14 types of impairment, reflecting human uses - such as eating fish, drinking water and swimming - and ecological impacts, such as loss of diversity in aquatic life and destruction of fish and wildlife habitat. The most common sources of impairment are contaminated sediments, sewage
treatment plant discharges and combined sewer overflows, nonpoint source runoff, runoff from hazardous waste sites and habitat degradation In Ohio, all or portions of the Maumee, Black, Cuyahoga, and Ashtabula rivers are areas of concern cited in the report. Those major tributaries to Lake Erie suffer from various impairments as a result of past industrial use along their banks and other human activities. Locally-based committees have worked with the Ohio EPA to develop Remedial Action Plans (RAPs) that define the sources and causes of impairment. Since the 1990’s, dissolved reactive phosphorus entering the lake from the Maumee and Sandusky Rivers has increased dramatically and is now higher than any other time during a 35-year monitoring period, according to the plan, and those runoff issues have sped up the implementation of management practices and research. The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is also revising the draft Nutrient Reduction Strategy Framework for Ohio Waters for submittal to the U.S. EPA. The plan also sees potential in the use of material dredged from harbors.
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The Northwood school board is looking at three possible sites to construct a new elementary, middle, and high school combination facility for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 students. The Ohio School Facilities Commission (OSFC) approved over $11.5 million in state funding earlier this month to construct the building. The OSFC, which oversees the state’s school facility renovation and construction program, also approved three possible locations where the school will be built: The former Lark Elementary School on Andrus Road on the west side, 20 acres of school owned property on Bradner Road on the east side, and on property where the schools are currently located at Woodville and Lemoyne roads, according to Superintendent Greg Clark. Initially, the OSFC approved just the Lark and Bradner sites. They had safety concerns about the Woodville/Lemoyne location, said Clark. “If we can’t find more suitable sites, the commission would allow us to put the building back on the current site,” said Clark. “A central location would be better than one on either side of town. But the OSFC would like us to continue to find something other than our current site. When they did the assessments of our buildings, they had concerns about our current location. It’s more suited for industrial use. We have I-280 to the west, Woodville Road to the north, Lemoyne Road to the east. So there are safety considerations with all the traffic. There are also petroleum pipelines near the school.” The Lark and Bradner sites also have limitations, he said. “There are folks who think they are too far away and I think they are a bit squeamish about that,” he said. In addition, the Bradner Road site is agricultural. “The only utilities readily available there is water. We’d have to add more to make that site ready to go. So we have some
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