Multi-State Restoration of Maumee River to Be Announced Today, As Major Foundation Aims to Preserve Great Lakes
To: STATE EDITORS
Blanchard, Tiffin Rivers to Be Included in Projects that will Span Northern Ohio, Eastern Indiana and Southern Michigan
WHAT: On a regional teleconference today, The Joyce Foundation, one of the Midwest’s largest philanthropic organizations will be joined by several national and local environmental groups to announce a new multi-state initiative to reduce pollution in the ecologically impaired Maumee River watershed, the largest river system in the Great Lakes basin. In addition to the Maumee River itself, the watershed includes the Auglaize, Blanchard, Ottawa and St. Joseph Rivers and encompasses 8,316 square miles covering portions of Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
The 130-mile Maumee River is the largest contributor of runoff pollution in Lake Erie, depositing five million tons of eroded soil that contains pesticides, fertilizer, toxic chemicals and other forms of potentially harmful runoff every year into the smallest and most ecologically fragile of the nation’s Great Lakes.
WHEN: 10:30 AM Eastern Standard Time (9:30 AM Central Standard Time), TODAY, February 12, 2007
Please Join By Toll-Free Conference Call
US and Canadian Journalists DIAL: 1-800-791-2345; then enter CODE: 48343
WHO: Ellen Alberding, President of The Joyce Foundation
Patrick Lawrence, Chair of the Maumee Remedial Action Plan (Maumee RAP)
Gary Belan, Associate Director of American Rivers’ Healthy Waters Campaign.
Terry Noto, Consultant for Environmental Defense
Larry Clemens, Assistant State Director for Conservation Programs for The Nature Conservancy in Indiana.
TO DOWNLOAD THE NEWS RELEASE AND RELATED MEDIA MATERIALS, VISIT: http://www.joycefdn.orgor http://www.vdcom.com/recentprojects/ joyce.asp
CONTACT: Valerie Denney Communications: Hugh McMullen (312) 408- 2580, x-15; Nora Ferrell (312) 408-2580, x-24; Mike Truppa (312) 408- 2580, x-12
SOURCE The Joyce Foundation
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