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Algae contamination affects Lake Erie housing prices
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Algal blooms cause lower housing prices in Lake Erie communities, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
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Algal blooms cause lower housing prices in Lake Erie communities, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
A new study reports that aesthetics are the main reason anglers avoid harmful algal blooms.
Charter boat captain says business is down by 25 percent.
Lake Erie’s western basin experiences the largest algal blooms in the Great Lakes. Thanks to a new computer model, scientists can track where and when they’ll happen.
But it could have been smaller. Studies indicate lingering effects of phosphorus from last year’s record-breaker.
Last summer’s Toledo water woes is a warning to the entire Great Lakes community.
Scientists have recently discovered that even when ugly algae leaves the water it can leave behind a deadly legacy: toxins capable of damaging your central nervous system.
Ice, cold and the seemingly dormant nature of winter have historically prevented a lot of research on the Great Lakes this time of year. But scientists have discovered a lot of algae hiding out under Lake Erie ice.
The University of Toledo reports twice as much potentially deadly microcystis – the most prevalent form of toxic algae – in western Lake Erie as there was this time last year.
(OH) The Toledo Blade – Staying one step ahead of algae. That’s the goal of a $269,500 initiative the federal government launched this summer for Lake Erie’s western basin, the warmest and shallowest part of the Great Lakes.
Stretching approximately from Monroe to Sandusky, Lake Erie’s western basin also is the area hit hardest by farm and street runoff. More