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- — September 29, 2010
Iowa DNR improves lake quality through massive fish kill

All the fish in southern Iowa’s Carter Lake have likely demised by now, exactly as planned. The lake had been filled with unwanted common carp, buffalo, and gizzard shad. These[…]

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- — August 18, 2010
NOAA funds research on how phosphorus drives blue-green algal blooms

A research project at the New York-based Stony Brook University aims to investigate how different kinds of phosphorus feed blooms of blue-green algae in the Great Lakes. The National Oceanic[…]

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- — August 17, 2010
Toxic algae continues to defile water quality in the Buckeye State

“No contact” and surface scum advisories have been popping up around Ohio ever since Grand Lake St. Marys was the first Ohio state park lake this year to have such[…]

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- — August 16, 2010
Lake Erie: the walleye capital

Lake Erie is the shallowest and smallest (by volume) of the Great Lakes. Its average depth is 62 feet, with a maximum depth of 210 feet. The lake is also[…]

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