The Maumee River is the single largest tributary and watershed in the Great Lakes.

The Maumee River has the largest watershed in the Great Lakes Basin and was labeled an area of concern by the Environmental Protection Agency.

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The General Assembly’s final budget approved Wednesday includes steep cuts to the state’s H2Ohio program, which is designd to address water quality concerns in the state. Instead of ...

Mar. 17—TOLEDO — As spring approaches, anglers from across the region are gearing up for the annual walleye run in the Maumee River and surrounding waterways. Every year, millions of Lake Erie ...

A mild-to-moderate bloom is expected despite a late-June heatwave and heavier April rainfall in the Maumee River basin, where phosphorus and nitrogen runoff at livestock and row crop farms is the ...

Water quality scientists predict the harmful algae bloom on western Lake Erie this year will be relatively mild and less severe than last year.

But that doesn’t mean it’s OK for Ohio to do virtually nothing to tackle the Maumee River basin’s hard-to-track liquified phosphorus runoff that’s coming mainly from agriculture, including ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Our community is nestled on the western basin of Lake Erie, and we have the Maumee River running through the middle. Water is the reason our city exists, and its benefits and ...

NOAA and its research partners are forecasting a mild to moderate harmful algal bloom (HAB) in western Lake Erie this summer. This year's bloom is expected to measure 3 on the HAB severity index, with ...

Factors include the levels of nutrient loading from the Maumee River basin, which covers a large part of northwestern Ohio, along with smaller areas in Indiana and Michigan.

The bulk of nutrients that triggers the blooms wash down from the Maumee River basin, the annual outpouring dependent on the volume of spring rain and snow melt.

On September 28, 2023, US EPA announced its final review and approval of the Maumee River Watershed Nutrient Total Maximum Daily Load (Maumee TMDL), which Ohio EPA submitted for approval on June ...