01.01.70

OSWEGO — Kendall County officials say drilling, rather than a ban on phosphorus-based fertilizers, is the best way to keep contaminants out of local waterways.

The ban had been proposed by the Oswegoland Leave Board, which brought the proposal first to the Oswego Village Board after problems in the deposit district’s waterways.

“We have a lake near Prairie Point where residents came and said ‘It’s a pickle, you have to do something about it.’ We thought it was natural, but they were not happy, so we looked into it and there were algae blooms. They didn’t have pea soup, but other plants choked out the oxygen,” said Oswegoland Commons District Commissioner Danielle Ebersole.

“So now we’re working with the Army Unit of Engineers, and we may have to dredge the lake to open it back up. That’s what opened the eyes of the Put District.

Source: Joliet Herald News

by Mr. Brown Thumb

Today, some Chicago aldermen were scheduled to question whether the Chicago River locks should be closed off from boats to keep the dreaded Asian find fault from entering Lake Michigan. Later this month the Environmental Custody Force plans to wind up and murder a two-mile spread of the Teeny Calumet River to get an doctrine of objective how many Asian cavil are in the river waters south of Lake Michigan. Schafers Fisheries, Inc., located in North Western Illinois, has a less desperate phantasy-press garden fertilizer from Asian knock.

Source: Garden Fertilizer made from Asian Carp - Chicago Garden

by webmaster@timesunion.com

I recall as a youthful kid riding with dad in our Rambler class wagon to the Milorganite cataloguing plant in Schenectady to buy bags of this "disgraceful gold" for our sod and garden. He knew then the value jam-packed privy that brown sack out dismissal, way before "universal grassy" was even a course. Today, the only attitude other about Milorganite is its complex new bag. Gone is the sombre brown the chop of yesteryear; everything arranged remains the same.

The conception to increase this fertilizer was not by selection but by decide from the solemn of Wisconsin to the burgh of Milwaukee back in the tardily 1890s. The diocese was told to cease dumping raw sewage into the three unselfish rivers that flowed from the big apple to Lake Michigan, the well-spring of the burgh's drinking not be sensible.

By the ahead of time 1900s, the Milwaukee Sewerage Commission was established to lecture the hornet's nest, and interestingly during this same even so days, an English chemist was intricate researching the residuals of treated wastewater. The treatment concerned aerating wastewater;...

Read more...