The Coast Guard Cleveland Harbor and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources rescued the man from the water. His condition ...

And while the region’s drinking water is so far safe, acres of spreading green muck float around Toledo’s water intake pipe on Lake Erie yet again.

Roughly half a million customers use the Lake Erie water system and 10 years ago ... "The billions of dollars to fix the intake is not the problem," Janine Middlesworth, an advocate for a ...

The water intake system for the city of Toledo ... In 2025, NOAA detected these toxins in Lake Erie on April 28, earlier than ever before . The 2022 bloom in Lake Erie persisted into November , which ...

Dr. Thomas Bridgeman with the University of Toledo and Lake Erie Research Center told13abc, “There are algae sensors on buoys out on the lake, and there are sensors out on the intake, but this ...

Toxic blooms on Lake Erie still a problem 10 years after Toledo shut down its water system. Despite warnings, children and adults play in the water at Maumee Bay State Park on Lake Erie near Oregon, ...

Western Lake Erie's 2014 algae bloom was a wake-up call for drinking water safety specialists. The bloom concentrated around Toledo's drinking water intake system and produced toxins, which got ...

“The water coming in from the Maumee is only about 3% (of the lake’s water) but it contains about 50% of the nutrients,” Bridgeman said. “The Maumee River has 10 to 20 times the concentration ...

Erie County Sheriff's Office investigates boat crash near Buffalo Water Intake on Lake Erie. Harold McNeil Oct 5, 2022 Oct 5, 2022 Updated Sep 13, 2023; 0; Courtesy of Erie County ...

In fact, he said, “We shoot a little bit of chlorine out there in the springtime” into the lake water intake pipe to kill any larvae at that end. A brick wall at the rear of the facility holds two 500 ...

It doesn’t take an economist to know that slime of any color keeps people away from the lake. Ohio State researchers estimated blooms at two Ohio lakes cost homeowners $152 million in lost property ...

LUCAS COUNTY, Ohio — This year marks 10 years since the water crisis in northwest Ohio. Roughly half a million customers use the Lake Erie water system and 10 years ago this week, none of them ...