Thank you Mary for including the fact that the waters are actually improving and it's the standards that have changed. More needs to be done, but it's good to know they are already on the right track.

Who comes up with these "Standards"?

Unelected Bureaucrats who make a living off of taxation's and fines and don't add a thing to the real quality of life or the environment but make everything more expensive and unlivable!

These phosphorus issues will continue to be a problem until the current ridiculous farming practices are changed. Monoculture farming and the practice of sticking 500 to 1000+ cows in a small area, generating millions of pounds of manure has to stop. One local farmer has 900 acres, over 1000 cows and a million gallon slurry pit. Several times a year his army of trucks heads out to all his acreage around town and literally lays down liquid manure inches thick. It stays pooled on the fields for days. Yet we must all defend and subsidize the farmer. There are much more sustainable methods of farming that are better for the land, better for the environment and even though they don't want to admit it, they are better for the farmer as well.

Yet it's government policies that are pushing the small dairy farmer out of business.

GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS ARE THE PROBLEM!