Yeah, dumping stuff in the rivers needs to stop all the way around, that's not a good practice for sure. municipalities need to slow down encouraging lawn care to the extreme too. Are all the farmers up there still using old conventional tillage practices? If so, the ones directly on the water shed at least, need to be incentivised to change to zero-till sustainable practices (soil health initiative). Our runoff here has cleaned up impressively since we changed over. There's less runoff to start with and it uses less fertilizer to grow decent crops. You have to utilize winter cover crops but that just helps the wildlife.
I'm seeing a lot of algae bloom down here in SW Ohio in small lakes and ponds, I can see how it would be a really big problem up by the lakes. That really sucks! It makes me want to move quicker on a rain catch and filtration system for my hunting cabin. Right now the plan is to fill up milk jugs with water and store it as needed. The one thing that sucks about not living near any mountains is very little chance of finding a natural spring.
Its called nature people, why the blame game? I hope most of you know where bears chitt, think hard know, where do fish chitt? Hint...Hint.... its not in the woods
These Blooms are not "nature", LOL Check out 2011, notice the stream from Detroit, nothing natural comes from Detroit
This year looks to be an improvement over 2011... Maybe Detroit financial woes have a silver lining. To bad for those who are/were affected though. ~Bill
Gallon glass wine jugs. Get drinking! 2 liter pop bottled are much longer lasting than milk jugs. If you're really worried about chemical leaching, just change the eater every few years.
