The federal government is earmarking funding for five projects aimed at reducing phosphorus in Lake Erie.
The plan is to spend $400,000 on five different filtering and treatment methods, and to monitor the results across the watershed.
Included in those systems is one that will be installed by Waterloo Biofilter Systems Inc. that will go at a pump station and will use low energy electro-chemistry to produce ions that react with Phosphates.
Not all are as high tech, one is a filter sock that can be fitted around drainage inlets at the field surface.
The end goal is to reduce algae flare ups in the smallest great lake, which causes billions of dollars in fishing, tourism and water treatment costs.
