algae bloom

[wakina]

Maybe this latest algae bloom will get our officials off their sorry asses and get them to work solving this problem. These blooms have been going on for way to long with way to much foot dragging. Now there are a few hundred thousand people without a safe water supply maybe this will get their attention and they will actually start to address the problem with something more than just lip service.

Maybe now we know the reason the fishing has been so spotty this year.

[Justretired]

People asking me if the fish caught now are safe to eat. Haven't found anything about that yet.

[wakina]

People asking me if the fish caught now are safe to eat. Haven't found anything about that yet.

They are warning people to not have any contact what so ever with the water supplied by the city of Toledo. It has been on the local Toledo TV stations all day today. So if the contamination is coming from the lake water how are you going to handle the fish that you catch. How are they not going to be contaminated at least on the outside where you are handling them to remove hooks and to place them into your cooler. Probably the closer you are to the Toledo water intake the more pronounced the problem would be. I know yesterday afternoon there was a mild algae bloom in the area of B-can, it looked like a normal green algae bloom to me but I am no expert on algae blooms other than what they feed on is a by product of pollution in the form of phosphorous and nitrogen. Google Toledo a water problem and read what several sources have to say. It does not sound good to me. The toxins involved can damage your liver among other things.

[wakina]

Apparently they have lifted the do not touch recommendation for healthy adults but have not lifted it for children or people with any type of immune system disorder. Obviously the water is bad and probably much worse than what they are telling the public. The less people know the better they like it. They probably would not be saying anything now if it was not for the serious health risks involved.

This situation brings to mind some of the things that transpired in the early 1960's. It is a wonder they have not closed some of the public beaches. Where are the state officials at on this matter.

On a lighter note it has been said that the latest water test showed an improvement in water purity over the previous tests performed earlier.

[Firetiger]

http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2...cials-say.html

[wakina]

http://www.toledoblade.com/Medical/2...cials-say.html

I normally would take what the ODNR had to say and be happy with it, but not this time.

The article headlines to me are at the very least misleading if not downright dishonest. Obviously those headlines are the opinion of the Toledo Blade and were written for whatever reason a journalist writes those things.

The first three paragraphs leaves more questions unanswered than were addressed. 1. When was the last testing done?
2. When was the last time the city of Toledo had a water crisis that was caused by a HAB (hazardous algae bloom), one so bad that they told residents not to use the water because of the high levels of toxins in it?
3. The state ODNR representative Jeff Tyson is speaking about research that took place in the past, the same past that testing of the city of Toledo's water supply indicated it was still safe to drink. He went on to say that there were no detectable levels in the fillets/meat when that testing was done. Just when was that testing done?

Paragraph 4 has some troubling statements in it when compared to the first 3 paragraphs. That is that there are presently more tests being done at the Ohio State University to determine if there is a problem. That tells me they are unsure themselves and are doing this test just to be sure, That is kind of like playing Offence and Defense both at the same time while assuring the public everything is OK with their official statements.

I find the statement about the fishes Liver the most troubling of all! The liver is the last place in the body where a substance(toxins in this case stop) passes through or could also accumulate in the body, they only accumulate there after they have traveled throughout the rest of the body and are headed for the hallway leading to the exit door located on the fishes underside.

[Spoon addiction]

Wakina is correct lake at. Mary's is on the continental divide, something to remember in this case Is if there is no precipitation in that region then there is no water to move in or out, the water, nutrients have no where else to to go except the feed the algae in their case can become so extreme.

[bobd47fish]

Maybe this latest algae bloom will get our officials off their sorry asses and get them to work solving this problem. These blooms have been going on for way to long with way to much foot dragging. Now there are a few hundred thousand people without a safe water supply maybe this will get their attention and they will actually start to address the problem with something more than just lip service.

Maybe now we know the reason the fishing has been so spotty this year.

Certainly farm runoff and sewage overflow are the major contributors in conjunction with global warming. What irritates me is the number of "anglers" pissing in the lake. It's quite easy to take a plastic soap jug in the boat, pee in the jug AND dump the pee into a toilet. Thousands of fishermen peeing into the lake every day doesn't help the situation and that is at least totally preventable.

[limitlypps]

Certainly farm runoff and sewage overflow are the major contributors in conjunction with global warming. What irritates me is the number of "anglers" pissing in the lake. It's quite easy to take a plastic soap jug in the boat, pee in the jug AND dump the pee into a toilet. Thousands of fishermen peeing into the lake every day doesn't help the situation and that is at least totally preventable.

lol, that's crazy dude, you are referencing a pimple on an elephants azz.
There's no such thing as global warming or climate change, it's called "weather dude"! Been going on for ages and ages.
Climate scientists can get tomorrows weather right let alone next week, next year, next decade, next millenium.

[bobd47fish]

lol, that's crazy dude, you are referencing a pimple on an elephants azz.
There's no such thing as global warming or climate change, it's called "weather dude"! Been going on for ages and ages.
Climate scientists can get tomorrows weather right let alone next week, next year, next decade, next millenium.

I see your a republican. You obviously bought into the Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity insight a few years ago that there is no global warming. Currently, for your information, 98% of climatologists agred that global warming is here to stay. But no matter what I or any of the climatologists (as opposed to your local weather forecaster) say, your too ignorant to look at the facts.
Can't cure dumb.