Lake Erie Water Quality Data | US EPA - U.S. Environmental …
Oct 23, 2024 · According to the 2017-2021 assessment, Lake Erie continues to exhibit eutrophic or high nutrient conditions. Eutrophic conditions promote plant and algae growth. High phosphorus and chlorophyll concentrations and harmful algal blooms indicate that the western basin of Lake Erie is highly eutrophic.
Lake Erie | US EPA - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Aug 12, 2024 · Excessive algal growth in Lake Erie threatens the ecosystem and human health of a waterbody that provides drinking water for 12 million people in the U.S. and Canada. Algae can persist for weeks during summer by blooms carried by …
Lake Erie’s annual algae outbreak mostly threatens health of …
Aug 5, 2021 · A new Environmental Working Group analysis reveals that Lake Erie’s annual algae bloom problem, which releases the toxin microcystin into the water, may pose elevated health risks for the communities that rely on the lake for drinking water, who are primarily people of color and low income.
Lake Erie turns toxic every summer. Officials aren't cracking down …
Jan 23, 2020 · “DANGER,” warned a red sign posted in the sand near the edge of Lake Erie. “Avoid all contact with the water.” The reason: The water was contaminated with algae-like cyanobacteria, which can produce toxins that sicken people and kill pets.
Lake Erie LAMPs and Associated Reports | US EPA - U.S.
Jun 24, 2024 · Geophysical and environmental overview of Lake Erie, links to lakewide management plans, reports and Great Lakes AOCs impacting Lake Erie
Ambitious new pollution targets needed to protect Lake Erie …
Feb 26, 2014 · EcoFore-Lake Erie scientists created, tested and applied computer models to forecast how nutrient pollution and climate change are likely to influence the formation and growth of hypoxia in Lake Erie’s largest basin, the Central Basin.
in the Lake Erie basin. To address impaired public drinking water supply and recreation uses due to harmful algae in the Western Lake Erie Basin, Ohio EPA is developing a Total Maximum Daily Load Report to address shoreline and open water impairments caused by cyanobacter.
Release of nutrients from lake-bottom sediments worsens Lake Erie…
Feb 19, 2021 · Robotic laboratories on the bottom of Lake Erie have revealed that the muddy sediments there release nearly as much of the nutrient phosphorus into the surrounding waters as enters the lake's central basin each year from rivers and their tributaries.
Despite Moderate Harmful Algal Blooms Forecast, Pollution …
Jun 29, 2023 · Despite the moderate forecast, communities around Lake Erie are still vulnerable to high levels of pollution, and more needs to be done to clean and protect the water for the people and wildlife who rely upon it.
Great Lakes: Harmful Algal Blooms - NOAA's National Ocean Service
Blooms of the blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria blooms, is a frequent occurence in the Great Lakes (particularly in Lake Erie), causing impacts to human and ecosystem health, including fish kills and discolored or foul-smelling water.