The U.S. EPA has several grant opportunities that our local governments and/or environmental organizations should try for.  Several focus on the problems of phosphorus in lake tributaries and algae in the western basin.  This particular passage caught my eye:

EPA is requesting submissions of applications for a single award totaling approximately
$100,000. This award will support a study for the purpose of better understanding the conditions
preceding, and resulting in, Lake Erie algal bloom development, and may include 24-hour
studies of physical, chemical and biological conditions, longer term physical and chemical
studies and/or datasonde or buoy placements, or other studies concerning factors necessary for
bloom development. The project must at least include the Maumee River and Bay and their
impacts on Lake Erie’s western basin.

Here are several related links:

http://epa.gov/greatlakes/fund/2008Erierfa/index.html

http://epa.gov/greatlakes/fund/2008Erierfa/2008Erierfa.pdf

http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&flag2006=false&oppId=44239

Note: The lake is too important to let funding opportunities pass by.

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