Ohio’s water quality improvement program, H2Ohio, is expanding. Since H2Ohio’s launch in 2019, more than 1.4 million acres in the Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) have been enrolled in the program, and the Ohio Department of Agriculture projects phosphorus runoff will be reduced by an estimated 317,000 pounds by the end of 2023.
Tracy Intihar, assistant director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture says the goal is to enroll 500,000 acres outside of the Western Lake Erie Basin.
