The Greater Cleveland Partnership to sign a water quality bill sent to him last week.
creates stronger protections for Lake Erie by focusing on efforts to reduce phosphorous runoff. The legislation also would allow the to establish stronger guidelines for use and disposal of dredging materials.
The partnership鈥檚 Marty McGann says the dredging proposals will benefit the .
鈥淭he materials that are coming out of the Cuyahoga River -- just about every year when they go through the dredging process at the Army Corps of Engineers,鈥� McGann says. 鈥淭hose need to go someplace and the state has, over the past couple of years, prohibited all open-disposal of sediment materials. So there needed to be a regulatory framework around this.鈥�
Both the group and the Ohio EPA expect Kasich will sign the bill.
