By Steve Bennish, Staff Writer Updated 1:15 AM Thursday, July 29, 2010 CELINA, Mercer County — Engineering man-made wetlands along small creeks could help heal the waters at Grand Lake St. Marys, state officials say.
If a demonstration project scheduled to begin on Prairie Creek this fall is successful, it could prove a way forward to restoring the health of the 13,500-acre lake where a tourism industry worth up to $200 million annually is being crushed by a cyanobacteria outbreak.
Wetlands are nature’s kidneys for their ability to filter and naturally treat polluted waters. The idea is to recreate wetlands and restore a more natural, slower water flow where creeks on the south shore feed Grand Lake.
The creeks — Prairie, Beaver, Coldwater, Chickasaw and Little Chickasaw — drain a watershed with the state’s highest livestock concentration.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has endorsed $500,000 in federal grant funds to […]
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