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Algae-produced microcystin may follow blooms across lake
2014-08-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toledo Blade: From the boat docks of Ohio State University's Stone Laboratory, practically a stone's throw from the party headquarters known as Put-in-Bay tiny green specs are in the early stages of bunching up and floating on Lake Erie's surface. It's been an all-too-familiar sight to Great Lakes scientists who use that lab, the oldest freshwater field station in the United States, since 1995. For the moment, they have no reason to panic. But they also know those tiny green specs are nature's way of putting...
Fish Consumption Advisory Issued for Lake Ouachita
2014-08-16 11:40:56| Waste Management - Topix.net
Little Rock - The Arkansas Department of Health is issuing a fish consumption advisory for Lake Ouachita.
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Michigan officials pledge efforts to stop Lake Erie algaeMichigan...
2014-08-15 00:08:38| Waste Management - Topix.net
Michigan officials are promising further efforts to prevent the kind of toxic algae growth in Lake Erie that forced a recent shutdown of the public drinking water system in Toledo.
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Lake Ouachita Fish Consumption Advisory Issued
2014-08-11 23:55:09| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Arkansas Department of Health is issuing a fish consumption advisory for Lake Ouachita.
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Lake Erie's Toxic Bloom Has Ohio Famers On The Defensive
2014-08-08 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A giant algae bloom is still making the waters in the western part of Lake Erie look like a thick, green pea soup. Toxins in that muck seeped into the water supply of Toledo, Ohio, last weekend, forcing officials to ban nearly half a million people from using tap water. A big cause of the algae proliferation isn't a mystery - it's crop runoff. And local farmers are on the defensive. Six miles from Lake Erie is Ron Schimming's 400-acre soybean and corn farm. "They shouldn't be placing all the...
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