All club members are invited to bring their girlfriends or boyfriends. where microcystins caused the water quality to drop to potentially unsafe levels.In a college club largely composed of men, the leader is planning a Valentine’s day themed dance on the Sunday before Valentine’s day. The city was the first major community in the U.S. About a half-million people were urged not to use the precious resource for three days until testing gave the all-clear. In 2014, a bloom tied to runoff caused unsafe levels of microcystins in the water system of Toledo, Ohio.
But there’s reason to hope that, in time, the Maumee River will no longer display, as it has for countless summers, a loathsome foul and slimy green surface as it flows through Toledo on its constant and irresistible course on to Lake Erie’s Western Basin." How many more steps lie ahead, and how long they will take, is beyond even guessing. "Though the work that today’s agreement brings is but a first step, it is a step that has to be taken," said Judge James Carr in a statement. A judge based in the Northern District of Ohio ruled on Thursday that the state’s EPA must create an action plan to address toxic algae blooms that plague western Lake Erie every summer.
Environmentalists have fought for years for increased protection against phosphorus runoff, and the issue is currently in federal court. Significant amounts of phosphorus, which are used in industrial and agricultural operations, can run off into rivers and streams, leading to the growth of plants and algae in bodies of water. During 2011the level reached 10 and in 2015 reached 10.5.Īccording to Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, blooms along the lake consist of blue-green algae, otherwise known as cyanobacteria, which produces a liver toxin. Blooms with a severity index above 5 pose a risk to drinking water.
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