by Doug Moran
I love my dog, Minnie. Heck, we all love our dogs. But did you know that our dogs deposit about 120,000 tons of poop a year? That’s 240,000,000 lbs a year! Minnesota has about 900,000 dogs. And between them all, they poop about .73 lbs per day! All this poop contributes about 20% of the bacteria found in our lakes, rivers and streams, and spreads nasty stuff like Giardia and Salmonella! In fact dog poop is the 3rd largest source of bacterial pollution in urban watersheds! That’s not all! The nitrogen and phosphorus found in dog poop also raises havoc by fertilizing algae and other things which deplete the oxygen aquatic wildlife needs to survive. So take these 3 simple steps to reduce the impact of dog poop in our waterways!
Editor's Note: Doug Moran is a TCTU Board Member and our self-appointed Poop Czar. He is the number one advocate for solving the number 2 problem.
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by Yves Charron Good times in Preston!!!! Good TCTU participation, weather was great, water levels were excellent, the fish were biting, what more can you ask for!!! We kicked-off the weekend with a meet and greet dinner on Friday. A few new faces this year….it was nice to see. Then, we stopped at the river for a bug talk with Vaughn Snook (DNR) and some basic fishing techniques on the river. No cicadas sighting to report, but some BWO. On Saturday and Sunday, it was time to fish and put this new knowledge acquired into action. Some of the catches! Thank you for the ones who joined me in Preston. See you next year! Yves Charron TCTU Treasurer by Jim Sauter
Greetings from TCTU Streamkeepers. Wow. What a difference a year makes. Last year at this time we had extreme heat and drought. This year we have cooler weather, flooding, and drought concerns have vanished. Typically, we ask our stream monitors to take at least three of our stream monitoring readings within one day after a major rain event. This is not a problem this year! by Doug Moran We all know that Minnesota has a nitrate problem.
We know that nitrate is bad for humans (cancer, thyroid disease--especially for infants), bad for aquatic life, and bad for our economy ($210 billion/year). 27% of surface water tested by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency exceeds the EPA limit of 10 mg/L. And 10 percent of the private wells sampled in southwestern, southeastern, central, and north-central Minnesota have nitrate levels above 10 mg/L. So what can you do about it? A lot. A few simple things!
Do your part! It’s easy to reduce the amount of nitrate you add into our groundwater! PS: If you’d like to learn more about Nitrates, please click here for a great article on the MNTU website. |
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