After reading most of the posts, and visiting most of the links provided in some posts, I had to make a comment.

There is some misinformation in almost all the posts and most of the links. This does not surprise me, as I've been dealing with it for 40 years, 30 years as both a professional in the ecology field and as a concerned and informed outdoors person. When I was doing environmental education I often spent a third of my time correcting people and kids on what they thought was fact.

First, as to any danger of eating fish during a Lake Erie algae bloom, the EPA states "The consumption of fish flesh (muscle) is usually considered safe but there are fish species and fish organs, especially the liver, and stomach/intestinal contents which may contain considerable amounts of cyanotoxins." - http://www2.epa.gov/nutrient-policy-...ogical-effects .

The Toledo drinking water event was primarily caused by a "perfect storm" of events, which included the time of year, past week weather conditions (rainfall, wind and current direction, amount of sunlight, etc.), and the growing amount of algae blooms. To put it simply a relatively small bloom of toxin producing algae sat right on top on the intake for almost two days. This was always a possiblility and it finally happened.

Please do all of us a favor. When you post information that is science based please include the source of that information (some of you did). If you make a comment, make sure you have the facts correct.

I'm not saying that the posts were entirely incorrect, just that there was enough incorrect information on this thread to leave people either confused or taking away incorrect information. Most of the info in the posts was correct and helpful.

West Basin