Levels of the toxin microcystin has been detected in Lake Erie weeks earlier than usual, according to the National Oceanic ...

NOAA has detected levels of the harmful toxin, microcystin, in Lake Erie weeks earlier than it is usually detected in routine ...

LAKESIDE – The annual Lake Erie harmful algal bloom prediction has received an upgrade that could make it more accurate. The ...

“About 11 million people get their drinking water from Lake Erie. So if this species is out there and it is producing toxins, that water will be drawn into a water treatment plant before it is sent ...

On June 27, a week before July 4, the NOAA and research ... in western Lake Erie this summer, causing concern that swimmers and pets might unknowingly become exposed to toxic blue-green algae ...

Paul Den Uyl, a scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research who led the recent study, extracted and sequenced the DNA in samples of Lake Erie water to figure out that a ...

Even when toxic strains ... show how Lake Erie algal blooms in recent years generally started earlier and had longer-lasting peaks than those from earlier years. Credit: Source: NOAA “Blooms ...

The largest HABs that have been recorded in Lake Erie were ... is producing toxins, that water will be drawn into a water treatment plant before it is sent out to customers.” NOAA is currently ...

according to NOAA. Since 2008, toxin levels have exceeded advisory levels for drinking water and recreation in some areas of Lake Erie. Over the last seven years, researchers have seen the toxic ...