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fund razor
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That is weird. First time I ever heard that if you boil the water it gets worse.......
It's a toxin rather than a pathogen. Boiling increases ratio of toxin to water.
It was crazy out there yesterday morning. By the time I got up, the panic buyers were on the streets and in lines, driving like jackasses. I took my dad some so he wouldn't have to deal with that mess.
I am running on my modest reserve. Haven't joined the huddled masses with buckets yet. I bought beer. They are doing a good job keeping free water coming and putting downward pressure on street price. Stores are doing well keeping it coming. Kroger has 1.25 million bottles coming in today. They have been giving it out free in the hood. Tons of it last night and more this morning. They have all the thugs tied up in water lines. Crime has dropped. LOTS of people have brought in water spontaneously. People as far as Columbus rented U-Haul trucks and started driving, buying all the water where they traveled. People with well water or who buy it and fill cisterns with pickup truck tanks drove in and set up impromptu distribution centers. A lot of people with water spread it around. I think that they are getting water in fast enough to stop the hoarding.
Suburbanites have to buy it. That's the distribution plan. Poor people line up at the high school and get it free, and the rest line up at Costco and Kroger and buy it.
I'll probably have to take my own coffee to work tomorrow.
fund razor
Founding Member
Too much Detroiter poo in the lake. Then Phragle pee'd in it and set the alarms off.
fund razor
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We have taken to drinking whisky and beer until the all clear is given, at which time we will celebrate with beer and whisky.
Wrinkleface
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GD, sounds very reasonable 2 me!!!!:seeya:
Wrinkleface
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I think it was his P go'n downstate from Boyne Thunder after he won!!!!:biggrinjester:
rschap1
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Best of luck to everyone in the area.
I really have a hard time buying the explanation though...
farm and fertilizer run off???
I know that stuff can be bad, but I am guessing that years ago there were greater quantities collecting than today.
Hopefully it will get better soon !!!!
I really have a hard time buying the explanation though...
farm and fertilizer run off???
I know that stuff can be bad, but I am guessing that years ago there were greater quantities collecting than today.
Hopefully it will get better soon !!!!
Wrinkleface
Founding Member
Yummy
fund razor
Founding Member
Yeah. It went away from the late seventies until the mid 90s. The algae is in the lake naturally. It was too dirty for a while for the algae to grow to full bloom. Then, international ships dumping ballast water in Lake Erie brought us zebra mussels, which essentially cleaned the lake. So clean, sun reaches the bottom where the algae grows. Farm runoff, the source of the Maumee River's legendary turbidity, is a huge factor in supplying extra phosphorus, the algae's preferred food. Strong sunlight plus shallow water plus warm temps plus phosphorus equals algae bloom. The toxic chemical is released when the algae dies. This year, we thought that the long winter would keep temps low and therefore the bloom low. It's nothing compared to 2011, but it's pretty bad for end of July. 2011 sucked.
Ultimately, reducing farm runoff and lawn fertilizer runoff would help reduce the concentration of food in the water.
But, it's been back for nearly 20 years, and we spend around $4M per year treating for it.
fund razor
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The ban was lifted this morning, btw.
fund razor
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rschap1
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My little lake had more algae than past few years too.
I was surprised because of the cold water temps and record ice cover this past winter.
A little (and I mean little) pretty blue copper sulfate REALLY knocks it back on my beach.
Maybe a dump trucks full of that could miss a turn and find their way to the shorelines
I was surprised because of the cold water temps and record ice cover this past winter.
A little (and I mean little) pretty blue copper sulfate REALLY knocks it back on my beach.
Maybe a dump trucks full of that could miss a turn and find their way to the shorelines
Ratickle
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They have banned all fertilizer with phosphorus in our county a couple years ago to eliminate runoff into Lake Macatawa and then Lake Michigan. Seems to have helped already in the Black River and Lake Mac. Supposedly phosphorus is really almost non-essential for complete plant growth, only helps for rapid greening of lawns.
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