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. <br />CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />RESOLUTION N0. 88 - 13 <br />BY: THE MAYOR AND THE ENTIRE COUNCIL <br />A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING HOUSE BILL 491 <br />AND SENATE BILL 39, BILLS TO RESTRICT <br />THE PHOSPHORUS CONTENT OF HOUSEHOLD <br />LAUNDRY DETERGENT SOLD IN THE LAKE ERIE <br />DRAINAGE BASIN, AND DECLARING AN <br />EMERGENCY. <br />WHEREAS, Lake Erie is a tremendous natural resource for <br />Ohio, providing drinking water and water for essential industry <br />and economic development; and <br />WHEREAS, Lake Erie provides unparalleled recreational <br />facilities for Ohioans, and is the basis for one of the largest <br />centers of tourism in the United States; and <br />WHEREAS, Lake Erie has become known as the "Walleye Capital <br />of the World" because it is one of t}ie most extensive areas for <br />sportfishing in the Great Lakes; and <br />WHEREAS, Lake Erie's water quality has improved greatly in <br />the last two decades, largely because of the reduction in phos- <br />phorus discharged into the Lake, and has once again become a <br />productive, vital waterbody, a source of pride to Ohioans; and <br />WHEREAS, excessive levels of phosphorus continue to degrade <br />Lake Erie's water, causing occasional algae blooms and decreas- <br />ing the public enjoyment of this resource; and <br />WHEREAS, the InternationalJoint Commission has reauested <br />Ohio to ban the sale of high-phosphate detergents in the Lake <br />Erie Drainage Basin as a means of improving water quality; and <br />WHEREAS, by restricting the sale of polluting phosphate <br />detergents, Ohio EPA estimates that some 212 metric tons of <br />phosphorus could be prevented from entering Lake Erie; and <br />WHEREAS, Ohio is the only major Great Lakes state that has <br />failed to enact restrictions on the sale of high-phosphate de- <br />tergents; and <br />WHEREAS, all Ohioans would benefit by taking reasonable <br />measures to improve Lake Erie water auality.