The science is clear: Lake Erie's algae problem is caused by excess phosphorus pollution, nearly 90% of which comes from the booming agricultural industry ...

12 авг. 2024 г. · Excessive algal growth in Lake Erie threatens the ecosystem and human health of a waterbody that provides drinking water for 12 million people ...

20 янв. 2023 г. · In the 1960s, Lake Erie suffered from extreme pollution due to industrial waste and sewage runoff, and parts of the lake were declared dead.

For decades, pollution filled Lake Erie with far more nutrients than the lake could handle, with phosphorous being the main culprit. Phosphorous is a fertilizer ...

12 июн. 2024 г. · Algal blooms in Lake Erie have been an issue since the 1960s and 1970s when the lake was heavily polluted. Because the lake is the shallowest ...

23 окт. 2024 г. · High phosphorus and chlorophyll concentrations and harmful algal blooms indicate that the western basin of Lake Erie is highly eutrophic.

Chemicals, toxic pollutants, pesticides and heavy metals entered the Great Lakes; they flowed from thousands of factory discharge pipes and sewage plants, ...

23 апр. 2021 г. · The Lake Erie water quality got progressively worse every year. In 2014, the cyanobacteria microcystin from harmful algae got into the Toledo ...

2 авг. 2024 г. · A nearby drainage ditch which leads to Lake Erie looks as though someone spilled green paint on the surface. That paint is actually a cyanobacterial bloom.