Terrorism?
I was wondering about that. Last year there were a couple incidences of Middle Eastern “tourists” visiting Water sources. IIRC
No they’ve been monitoring these blooms for nearly a decade. This one is real bad. I suspect it is the excess rain this year washing fertilizer into the shallow end of the lake.
http://www.epa.gov/.../gross.../indicators/algae-blooms.html
During the 2000s blooms of toxic Microcystis were reported as common in the western basin. In August 2003, a massive bloom of the cyanobacteria Microsystis aetuginosa formed in western Lake Erie and persisted for nearly a month. Surface scums of Microcystis containing high concentrations of the toxin microcystin washed ashore in Michigan and Ohio, resulting in foul-smelling, rotting, algal mats. Beaches and recreational boating areas were rendered unusable and sport fishing was adversely affected. The Microcystis bloom of 2003, perhaps the most severe in Lake Erie’s recent history, was only the latest in a trend towards increasing frequency of Microcystis blooms in the last decade. The 2003 bloom was followed by smaller blooms in 2004 and 2005. Microcystis reappeared in 2006, but the extent of the bloom remains to be determined.
Probably no but it would be of no surprise. The Lake Erie/Detroit River connection is wide open to Windsor, Canada which has a massive Muslim population. Made the trip many times by boat, once we arrived at our weekend dockage, made a declaration phone call to CPA. When we left, we left......not one time in years we were ever check boarded by the Coast Guard, nor was anyone else we knew ever checked! even after 9/11. We could have brought anybody or anything back to our marina in the US.
The article states it is a toxin from algae growing in Lake Erie.
No terrorism. It’s a combination of weather, nitrogen, rain runoff and where the nasty algae landed: Toledo’s intake system. Oregon, Ohio and Monroe, Michigan, both which are on Lake Erie, are not effected.
Some radio stations said this should be handled like a Level 3 snow emergency which means “everyone stay home.” The water buying has been insane.