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Originally Posted by bulletbob
Well, we get the same and WORSE up here in NY state, and these lakes are 40 miles long, 2 miles wide and 600 feet deep!... Simply too many people dumping organic material into the water.
See all those homes around every lake??? Where do you think a lot of the septic/sewage winds up? Dog poop? Lawn and Garden fertilizer? Grass clippings, leaves?
Its all fertilizer and microorganisms eat it eventually... The Finger Lakes were all as clear as gin when i moved here in 1991. You could see fish among the rocks 30 feet down easily.
Now they are often a sickly greenish brown, or even bright green, and full of slimy algae. Its because we all want to be right on the water, and those that can afford it do live on the water.- we all pay a price for it.
Even if its a small lake without homes on it, organic material from multiple thousands of nearby people, wildlife and pets ends up in it, resulting in blooms.. Its not just NJ, its everywhere there are a lot of people living near the water. . bob
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The relentless encroachment of an ever growing population on nature. We either change the products we're using or the same will happen every year. In a cycle which doesn't appear to be changing. Add the amount of rain we've had these last few years and impacts of run off and you have the perfect storm, or maybe better said the perfect storm drainage problem.
