Erma C. Leaphart

Water Protection. Water Conservation. Water Restoration.

[U-M Graham Sustainability Institute @GrahamInstitute]

🌱 Learn how Michigan is building soil health and reducing nutrient pollution. Be part of the 2025 State of the WLEB Conference, June 26 in Adrian, MI, featuring updates from state agencies and solutions from the field.

🔗 Register now at https://t.co/a0cc21EtdI #WLEB2025

[XRP LAB AI @0xA3therV3]

"The first-of-its-kind, comprehensive picture of #PFAS levels for the [#GreatLakes] basin, which holds nearly 95% of the nation’s freshwater, also reveals that precipitation is probably a major contributor to the lakes’ contamination." @PomTerkins

https://t.co/b5l6OF2WVh

[Eddie Verhamme @EddieGreatLakes]

The team calculated that airborne deposition from precipitation is primarily how PFAS get into the lakes, while they're removed by sedimentation, attaching to particles as they settle to the lakebed or flowing out through connecting channels.
https://t.co/218e6lcnS8

[U.S. EPA @EPA]

Turning blight into might in communities across America! 👏 EPA is providing funding for communities to assess, clean up, and revitalize #Brownfields sites. ⬇️
https://t.co/HfKTpvKJwa

[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition @HealthyLakes]

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative success: over 6,700 river miles have been cleared of dams and barriers, increasing fish habitat and biodiversity #GreatLakes #CleanWater #HealthyLakes

[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition @HealthyLakes]

With Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding, 1.8 million farmland acres have received assistance for nutrient management actions, reducing pollution and improving the health of our watersheds. #HealthyLakes #CleanWater #GreatLakes

[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition @HealthyLakes]

Reflecting on the incredible successes of the Coalition and Great Lakes advocates in 2023! 🎉 We're so grateful for our fantastic members, our dedicated team, our terrific partners, and our generous funders. We're looking forward to continuing our work for clean water in 2024!

[Erma C. Leaphart @water_ally]

I, too, LOVE the GREAT LAKES!!

[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition @HealthyLakes]

We don't have just one Valentine, we've got 5 and they're all great…lakes, that is! 💙From their stunning beauty to all the resources they provide, there are countless reasons to love the Great Lakes. Why do you love the Great Lakes? #GreatLakes #CleanWater

[Erma C. Leaphart @water_ally]

100% Well done!The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is the most important tool in our region’s toolbox to protect and restore the Great Lakes. Share this quiz and spread the word! https://t.co/5sCrRtX0CM

[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition @HealthyLakes]

🌊🎣 Coalition Member Spotlight: @TroutUnlimited is uniting diverse interests to care for and restore rivers and streams, ensuring that children can experience the joy of wild and native trout and salmon. 🐟🏞️ #GreatLakes #CleanWater #Conservation #HealthyLakes

[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition @HealthyLakes]

Thank you to all of the cosponsors of the recently announced Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act of 2024! This bill is a winner for the region.

Read more: https://t.co/398BdkRfHB

#GreatLakes #CleanWater #HealthyLakes

[Erma C. Leaphart @water_ally]

Tell Michigan Leadership - Support Water Affordability for All! https://t.co/GPhckQgAA8

[Erma C. Leaphart @water_ally]

Wetlands provide benefits to humans and a multitude of wildlife - all essential to well-being of life on earth. If they are at risk, so are we and protecting them is not an option. We need clean water protections!

[Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition @HealthyLakes]

Today is #WorldWetlandsDay! Wetlands are a core part of the water system, but a Supreme Court decision last year put them at risk. Learn more in this video. #HealthyLakes #Wetlands #CleanWater #GreatLakes

[Erma C. Leaphart @water_ally]

more wetlands loss - so so aggravating. We know better and we need to follow that up with doing better; wetlands provide multiple benefits to biodiversity including the human species; join the fight to protect them

[Hoosier Environmental Council @HEC_ED]

It’s no secret that Indiana’s water policy has failed to protect one of our most precious resources: wetlands. Read more in our latest blog.

https://t.co/MDDFsDXmLJ

[Erma C. Leaphart @water_ally]

well said; plus we do not want to penalize farmers, they provide a valuable service (we need to eat) but we also need and want clean water. It has to be win-win! period

[Prairie Rivers Network @PrairieRivers]

Illinois is failing to keep our water clean.

The state has failed to reduce the vast amount of fertilizer from farms that pollutes streams, makes its way down the Mississippi River and causes a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico where no fish or marine life can survive.

[Erma C. Leaphart @water_ally]

Bottled water can contain hundreds of thousands of previously uncounted tiny plastic bits https://t.co/A8Qn8fGeHQ

[Detroit Greenways Coalition @DetroitGreenway]

.@RTAmichigan Detroit to @DTWeetin Express Service public hearing TOMORROW Tuesday Jan 9th 5-7pm at @SEMCOG. Virtual mtg on Wed from 10-noon.
https://t.co/ukk3zrCDLV

[CIGLR @CIGLR_UM]

🚨 Join us for a #GreatLakes seminar, January 11 @NOAA_GLERL!

"Plant community dynamics linked to ecosystem biogeochemistry in #GreatLakes coastal wetlands..."

When: Thursday, Jan 11, 11-12pm

Who: Bill Currie (@UMSEAS)

For registration & more: https://t.co/X84Z4G2lDT

[Erma C. Leaphart @water_ally]

Just started looking and love it already!!

[Convention on Wetlands @RamsarConv]

Discover the value of #WetlandsForCities #CitiesWithNature

Climate regulation: Wetlands store carbon, fight climate change & regulate temperatures in cities. 🌇

🔗https://t.co/zEXSPyskT4

#GenerationRestoration #ForNature

[MNEnviroPartnership @MEPartnership]

Great coverage of a great crop! Winter camelina has enormous potential to heal water and soil while benefitting farmers and producing fuel, food, and even bioplastics. https://t.co/d7pTPNlriS