Tag: blue-green algae
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Digitizing Data: Tracking Harmful Algal Blooms in the San Francisco Estuary
Photo credit: California Department of Water Resources Earlier this month, I was working my way through my morning emails and discovered a brief note from one of my Interagency Ecological Program (IEP) colleagues. They had been notified by one of their field crew employees of some higher-than-normal chlorophyll concentrations in their routine water samples from San Pablo…
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6 ways to protect your lake’s water quality
Want to improve water quality on your lake? Why not prevent overland flooding and erosion and help your forests at the same time? Here are 6 simple things you can do at the cottage to be a hero. 1. Never put soap in the lake. Soaps add phosphorus to the water, which, along with fertilizers…
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Florida lawmakers begin cracking down on polluters
Photo: City of Sarasota employees work to contain a sewage spill. Herald-Tribune archive (2011) Mike Lang But big questions remain about how far they’ll go TALLAHASSEE — The crowd packed into a committee room in the basement of the Florida House office building burst into applause last week after Rep. Randy Fine finished delivering an…
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NOAA: 40% of Lake Okeechobee covered in harmful algae
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates 40 percent of Lake Okeechobee is now covered in a harmful blue-green algae bloom that multiplied quickly in the past two weeks. Richard Stumpf, a NOAA oceanographer monitoring algae on the lake via satellite, said the lake is experiencing a “major bloom”, that, unfortunately is coinciding with lake…
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Salem water sees decrease in toxins, Wilsonville sees increase
Salem tap water could be safe for everyone after another day, said city officials Friday. There’s no guarantee, because toxin levels can wax and wane, but water treatment staff are seeing a trend line in the right direction. The city needs two days of clean test results before a water advisory that caused some residents…
