FERNDALE – Professor Donald Carpenter, from Lawrence Technological University, was at the White House water summit last week to detail his work on storm-water runoff. Carpenter, a life-long outdoors enthusiast, realized that the only way to clean up the state’s lakes, streams and rivers is to deal with the run off from the urban and agricultural areas.
Carpenter has spent the last 10 years figuring out the best way to deal with water run-off, including a creative way under study at LTU that would clean-up water running off parking lots so doesn’t pollute Michigan’s waterways. His research is so novel that he briefed Obama Administration officials in Washington DC.
The toxic algae bloom that has contaminated Lake Erie is another area under study by Carpenter. He’s urging farmers to look at better agricultural practices that use less fertilizer or captures these nutrients before they enter the Great Lakes.
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