Lake Erie’s 2015 Algae Bloom Worst On Record

  • 9 years ago
This past summer, Lake Erie was under the siege of a toxic algae bloom, and officials recently declared the event as the worst on record.

This past summer, Lake Erie was under the siege of a toxic algae bloom, and officials recently confirmed how bad the situation was.
According to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the event was the worst on record. 
On the scale established to indicate the severity of such occurrences, the 2015 outbreak was designated a 10.5, outranking the previous record-holder by half a point.
Though the coverage of the algae bloom was vast, stretching across 300 squar

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