I have no clue. They blame an antiquated system but we get algae blooms every year. Now they are sending samples all over because they don't understand the data. This could all be for nothing but a false positive. This shows how vulnerable people who aren't prepared really are.How does something like this happen?
Expand. They've been blaming farm runoff for the recent blooms. I'm pretty ignorant about it.Farm bureau.
Pretty much it is what it is. There is a 100 year supply of in ground phosphorus right now and all they do is keep piling it on year after year. Everybody is scared to piss off the farmers so they dance around the issue like pussies. It's that ugly pink elephant in the room. You, the users, are going to pay dearly for the fix I promise.Expand. They've been blaming farm runoff for the recent blooms. I'm pretty ignorant about it.
And pound the governors phone lines and push every button imaginable to make them force the farmers to clean up their act.Removal of the feed system.
Removal of the phosphorus laden sediment from the west basin
Control of bottom feeding fish to limit disturbance
Probably new treatment technology or a change in how the plant gets its water..
Expand. They've been blaming farm runoff for the recent blooms. I'm pretty ignorant about it.
And pound the governors phone lines and push every button imaginable to make them force the farmers to clean up their act.
while those are contributors, they are a very, very small percentage of the actual load. Most runoff from homes are captured in ponds where is settles out before making it to the river.Yes some of it is the farmers
But yard run off , your nice green lawns
Also waste treatment plants , dumping raw sewage when there is a lot of rain
My dad and my brother are both farmers
They have had it pounded into them about run off
So they have to watch the fields
But many home owners and some lawn services put on way to much fertilizer
So it ends up running off
Where dose the run off end up ? Lake Erie
And I bet a large percent of the excess food for the algae comes from up stream
John