"PennLive researched government reports and newspaper archives to find the deaths at the Dock Street Dam from accidents."
Pennsylvania has a lot of low head dams that aren't always well marked and have a reputation for being deadly.
"Prestigiacomo said the hub is looking at temperature, light availability, nutrients, salinity, pH and other kinds of data to try and determine what might be triggering the blooms. He referred to storms in July, which created "episodic pulses of nutrients followed by long, warm, kind of stagnant conditions like we're seeing now," a good formula for creating blooms. The forecast for at least the next week looks much the same."
That's shitty.
Interesting article on the blue-green algae outbreak on Lake Erie.
LANDSTAT data might soon be able to detect water quality issues from space, undetected by people on the land.
Apparently at least in New Brunswick, rock snot is native but only now blooming because of higher water temperatures.