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Green gunk bad sign for Lake Erie http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/Green%20gunk%20sign%20Lake%20Erie/1970183/story.html
By Craig Pearson, The Windsor StarSeptember 6, 2009
In Lake Erie there was an outburst in algea and the algea was due to several weeks of warm temperatures and low wind, as well as more nutrients in the water. The algae would eventually die, drop to the bottom, decompose, and use up all the oxygen in the lake. The Candian government decieded to design a way to limit phosphorus by banning it from detergent and mandating better sewage treatment. The overall concept, on how this relates to what we are learning in class is the phosporus and oxygen cycles are being altered in this aquatic ecosystem because of human intervention. When sewage is dumped in the water it contains more phosporous than there natuarlly is in the lake.
The area that this article pertains to is Lake Eire. Although this article was only subjected to this area, this very same problem may be happening all over the world.
In Lake there have been an abundance of outbreaks of blue-green algea. Cyanobacteria has gathered in massive quantities the last couple of weeks because of warm temperatures and low wind, as well as more nutrients in the water. The algae would eventually die, drop to the bottom, decompose, and use up all the oxygen in the lake. In the U.S., the Obama administration has announced that it will spend $450 million on Great Lakes restoration and cleanup, nearly doubling the federal budget on Great Lakes programs. Algae feeds on nitrogen and phosphorous. If the blue-green algae gets enough phosphorus, it can produce its own nitrogen, essentially help to feed itself. The main problem with cyanobacteria is that they produce toxins. These toxins can kill plants fish and animals. This is a problem that needs to be contained.
I think that we should stop dumping our phosfous filled waste into these great lakes because it is not only bad for the enviroment it can lead to a completely dead lake. If we made this mess it is our duty to fix this mess before it is to late.
detergent- any of a group of synthetic, organic, liquid or water-soluble cleaning agents that, unlike soap, are not prepared from fats and oils, are not inactivated by hard water, and have wetting-agent and emulsifying-agent properties.
Green gunk bad sign for Lake Erie http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/Green%20gunk%20sign%20Lake%20Erie/1970183/story.html
By Craig Pearson, The Windsor StarSeptember 6, 2009
In Lake Erie there was an outburst in algea and the algea was due to several weeks of warm temperatures and low wind, as well as more nutrients in the water. The algae would eventually die, drop to the bottom, decompose, and use up all the oxygen in the lake. The Candian government decieded to design a way to limit phosphorus by banning it from detergent and mandating better sewage treatment. The overall concept, on how this relates to what we are learning in class is the phosporus and oxygen cycles are being altered in this aquatic ecosystem because of human intervention. When sewage is dumped in the water it contains more phosporous than there natuarlly is in the lake.
The area that this article pertains to is Lake Eire. Although this article was only subjected to this area, this very same problem may be happening all over the world.
In Lake there have been an abundance of outbreaks of blue-green algea. Cyanobacteria has gathered in massive quantities the last couple of weeks because of warm temperatures and low wind, as well as more nutrients in the water. The algae would eventually die, drop to the bottom, decompose, and use up all the oxygen in the lake. In the U.S., the Obama administration has announced that it will spend $450 million on Great Lakes restoration and cleanup, nearly doubling the federal budget on Great Lakes programs. Algae feeds on nitrogen and phosphorous. If the blue-green algae gets enough phosphorus, it can produce its own nitrogen, essentially help to feed itself. The main problem with cyanobacteria is that they produce toxins. These toxins can kill plants fish and animals. This is a problem that needs to be contained.
I think that we should stop dumping our phosfous filled waste into these great lakes because it is not only bad for the enviroment it can lead to a completely dead lake. If we made this mess it is our duty to fix this mess before it is to late.
detergent- any of a group of synthetic, organic, liquid or water-soluble cleaning agents that, unlike soap, are not prepared from fats and oils, are not inactivated by hard water, and have wetting-agent and emulsifying-agent properties.
1 comment:
Perfect article for the unit that we just covered! Be careful to use spell check, there are numerous typos and/or misspellings.
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