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Lake Erie LaMP Public Forum
Funding, planning and building partnerships to protect and restore OUR Lake Erie.

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Lake Erie LaMP

The OEC is working on many fronts to improve, sustain, and protect the quality of Lake Erie. The Lake Erie Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP) (external link) is a collaboration between the United States, Canada, and many watershed groups, scientists, local officials, and water enthusiasts.

About one-third of the total population of the Great Lakes basin resides within the Lake Erie watershed. In total, approximately twelve million people live in the watershed, including seventeen metropolitan areas with more than 50,000 residents. The lake provides drinking water for about eleven million of these inhabitants. The LaMP unites a network of stakeholders in actions towards a common goal - to restore and protect the Lake Erie ecosystem for future generations.

Lakewide Management Plans 2008

A Lakewide Management Plan, or "LaMP", is a plan of action to assess, restore, protect and monitor the ecosystem health of a Great Lake. It is used to coordinate the work of all the government, tribal, and non-government partners working to improve the Lake ecosystem. A public consultation process is used to ensure that the LaMP is addressing the public's concerns.

Click here to read Lakewide Management Plans for 2008.

Lake Erie LaMP Public Forum 2008

Click on the following to read the papers presented at the 2008 Lake Erie LaMP Public Forum

LaMP Breakfast at River Rally May 2008 Meeting Summary (PDF)

LaMP Public Forum Feb. 2008 Meeting Summary (PDF)

Dodd Creek (PDF)
Friends of the Coves (PDF)
Lake Erie LaMP Update (PDF)
Drinking Water Source Protection (PDF)

Lake Erie LaMP Public Forum 2007

Click on the following to read the papers presented at the 2007 Lake Erie LaMP Public Forum

Ohio EPA (PDF)
Healiing Our Waters - Great Lakes Coalition(PDF)
American Farmland Trust (PDF)
Great Miami Watershed (PDF)
Delta Institute (PDF)
Lake Erie LaMP and Forum (PDF)
Western Lake Erie Basin Partnership (PDF)

LaMP Public Forum (2007) meeting summary. (PDF)

LaMP Listserv

If you are interested in participating in the LaMP Listserv, please contact Cheryl Johncox at cheryl@theOEC.org. The Listserv is a vehicle for the participants to share experiences, successes, questions, and projects.