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2024 Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecast Ends First Fully Functional Season
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The central basin of Lake Erie provides drinking water to more than 2 million Ohio residents. During the summer, the lake stratifies, with warm water ...
Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecast - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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The central basin of Lake Erie provides drinking water to more than 2 million people along the Ohio coast. In the summer, the lake stratifies, with ...
New Hypoxia Forecast for Lake Erie: Enhancing Water Quality Management
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Lake Erie now benefits from an advanced hypoxia forecast model, designed to help water treatment plants manage water quality more effectively. This ...
A Novel Approach to Destroying Toxic 'Forever Chemicals' in Drinking Water
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This approach is the first of its kind, truly destructive process for these harmful chemicals from drinking water and bodies of water. NCCOS ...
LEOFS-Hypoxia: Operational Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecasting for Public ...
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This coupled system will allow drinking water managers to prepare when conditions that promote hypoxic water movement into the vicinity of water ...
Forecasting the Causes, Consequences, and Potential Solutions for ...
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Lake Erie is the southernmost and shallowest of the Laurentian Great Lakes and is used extensively for drinking water, recreation, and the fishing ...
Newly Patented Technology Destroys Forever Chemicals
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In fact, these harmful chemicals are present in most drinking water sources and cannot be filtered out with traditional treatment systems. This new ...
Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecast Helps Treatment Plant Operators Protect ...
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Low dissolved oxygen (hypoxia) in a water body can certainly harm aquatic life, but it can also create problems for water treatment plant operators ...
Helping Cleveland Provide the Highest Quality Drinking Water
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The Lake Erie 'dead zone' presents challenges for municipalities who draw water from Lake Erie. An NCCOS-funded project team of researchers at the ...
Moderate to Above-Moderate Algal Bloom Predicted for Western Lake Erie ...
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Such blooms may result in higher costs for cities and local governments that need to treat drinking water; prevent people from enjoying fishing ...
NOAA Predicts Moderate to Larger than Moderate Harmful Algal Bloom for ...
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Predicted bloom severity for 2024 as compared to previous years. Blooms with a severity index above 5 generally pose greater risk to drinking water ...
Bacteria Isolate Degrades Harmful Algal Toxins in Drinking Water
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Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms ('cyanoHABs') occur worldwide — causing detrimental effects to ecosystems and local economies — and can produce ...
Timely Toxin Data Helped Ohio Deliver Safe Drinking Water
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At the time, the bloom led the City of Toledo to issue a two-day, drinking water ban for 400,000 people in Toledo and surrounding areas after drinking ...
Different Varieties of Microcystins Have Differing Toxicities, and Why ...
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Knowing the toxicity of a particular bloom is critical information for drinking water plant operators to ensure its safety. It is also important to ...
Great Lakes Mussel Watch Program: An Assessment and Characterization of ...
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As the largest body of freshwater on earth, the Great Lakes provide drinking water for millions of people and support multi-billion dollar fishery and ...
Using Microcystin-degrading Bacteria and their Enzymes for Water ...
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The three-day drinking water ban in Toledo, Ohio, in August 2014 presented a serious public health crisis for nearly 500,000 residents in northwest ...
Perspectives on the Lake Erie HABs – NCCOS Intern Blog
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put out guidelines in 2015 for safe drinking water standards, after the bloom last year left almost half a ...
Developing Practical and Affordable Water Filtration Systems to Remove ...
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Human consumption of contaminated drinking water can lead to liver damage and lasting harmful effects on the immune system down to the cellular level ...
NOAA, Partners Will Use Satellites to Protect Public from Harmful ...
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In August 2014, officials in Toledo, Ohio, banned the use of drinking water supplied to more than 400,000 residents after it was contaminated by an ...
Enabled by NCCOS Response and Training, SC Responds to Cyanobacterial ...
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A blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) bloom was detected in a reservoir used as a back-up drinking water source for the City of Charleston, SC. NCCOS ...