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Research finds agriculture main source of E.coIi in Lake Huron
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Sewagr,. accounted for one to three
per cent, Trevors said.
He co-authored the study with U
of G environmental biologist Prof.
Hung Lee and researchers from the
Ontario Ministry of Environment.
Their research paper appeared in
the March issue of the Canadian
Journal of Microbiology.
"We know agriculture is important
to Ontario," said Trevors. "We're us-
ing scientific tools to learn about the
environment and how to sustain and
improve our water resources."
The team compiled DNA samples
from potential E. coli sources and
compared those against samples tak
en in 2005 and 2006 from Lake Hu-
ron and the creeks and rivers feeding
it. Trevors said it's useful to quantify
how much bacterial pollution might
come from different sources.
"If you don't know, where it's com-
ing from, it's difficult to mitigate the
problem and protect recreational wa-
ter," he said. "If you know where it's
coming from, you can try to imple-
ment management solutions to deal
with it."
Black says that he'd like to see
samples studied from other water
sources for comparative analysis.
"Let's find the source," he says. "It
might be just a few farms causing
this."
He says the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture and. the Ontario Pork
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Producers' Marketing Board have
also expressed interest in the results
of the U of G study.
So has John Fitzgibbon, director
of the University of Guelph's School
of Rural Planning and Development
and chair of the Environmental Farm
Plan Working Group of the Ontario
Farm Environmental Coalition.
Fitzgibbon called the study "a good
first step in understanding the issues
but not as a provider of solutions."
He says he's interested in conduct-
ing a follow-up study that more spe-
cifically identifies the sources of con-
tamination.
"That is, tracking back up the
stream to the specific sources and
also undertaking Best Management
Practices on farms to evaluate the
practices that are most effective in
dealing with the movement of bacte-
ria off farms and into the waters," he
says.
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are not well understoodin terms of
how effective they are. _ -
"It should be pointed out that many
of our best practices for manure man-
agement have been adopted and we
believe that some progress has been
made," he says. "There is however,
need for documentation of our prac-
tices and there will always be room
for improvement.
"We unfortunately do not see simi-
lar work being done on the other
sources of bacterial contamination.
In fact, they are largely_ being ig-
nored."
There is also much that could be
done to reduce the contamination
from human sources, which the
study shows are "way out of propor-
tion" to the population in the 18 -mile
watershed, Fitzgibbon adds.
"Also, there is little consideration
as to what can be done to manage
contamination from wildlife," he
says.
Black notes that Huron County
farmers received the most federal
funding out of 52 counties in Ontario
over a four-year period under the
Environmental Farm Plan.
Approximately $71,056,000 was
distributed for more than 17,500
farm projects across Ontario from
April 2005 to March 31 of this year.
Huron County producers received
about $5,515,000 for 1,407 projects.
"Every project Huron farmers com-
plete will help keep our county and
our province a more environmen-
tally -conscious place to work and
play," says Lois
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