Editorial: Algal Bloom Doom

Editorial: Algal bloom doom

Troubling evidence of significant health risks from the harmful algal blooms that have become an annual occurrence on the shore of Lake Erie and the many inland lakes in Ohio is emerging from the University of Michigan.

Advocacy group challenges "new normal" status of Lake Erie’s algal blooms

It’s the annual peak algal bloom season and the spotlight as usual, is on Lake Erie’s western basin, including Toledo and southeast Michigan. For the public, that’s because in 2014, Toledo went three days without drinking water as toxic algal blooms forced the city to issue a “do not drink” order. Read Now at Great Lakes Now.