Algal blooms: we're not the only ones.....

[Sk8man]

https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2018-07-28-florida-fort-myers-red-tide-dead-animals-turtles

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[Neo1945]

And then there's this ..... "Signs posted in the swim area by the village of Watkins Glen"

Swimming is closed at Clute Park due to E-coli in the water. As of 07/27/2018.

[bulletbob]

 All I know is that for years, if I went to Cayuga or Seneca, and tossed an earthworm into the  clear  water on a summer day, there would be good size flashes   of life coming from every direction,  shorelines were just FULL of fish life. No longer... Nowadays the water looks like crap much  of the year, and the only thing that will descend on the above mentioned earthworm are the Goby hordes..

 Skinny is not much better.. After 100 or more years of  Syracuse drinking lake water unfiltered, they are now going to have to spend a  massive dollar amount on a gigantic filtration system.. We killed these lakes with ""progress"".... bob