A recent article by Kate Malongowski, published in The Lima News, details ODNR efforts to keep Grand Lake St. Marys clean. Article highlights include:
- The Brutus dredge has quadrupled the amount of sediment that can be pulled from the lake
- The dredge pulled 289,000 cubic yards of sediment from the lake in 2012
- Tourism has increased, evident by the first increase in bed tax figures since 2007