Thread: Blue-green algae

Guys, I want to approach an authority and request from them a spore count (if that is the right term) to be broadcast or at least signs indicating the presence of this lethal goo in our rivers in the Summer...so that people are warned not to let their dogs in the water... Blue-green algae as we all know is so toxic to dogs and I am not aware of any veterinary therapy to counteract the toxicity......I would appreciate your thoughts and any suggestions as to whom I should approach...Fish and Game???

a link...

http://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/poi...e-green-algae/

Originally Posted by EeeBees

Guys, I want to approach an authority and request from them a spore count (if that is the right term) to be broadcast or at least signs indicating the presence of this lethal goo in our rivers in the Summer...so that people are warned not to let their dogs in the water... Blue-green algae as we all know is so toxic to dogs and I am not aware of any veterinary therapy to counteract the toxicity......I would appreciate your thoughts and any suggestions as to whom I should approach...Fish and Game???

HBRC?
There's been a few too many dogs lost locally to this.

I know:, @kiwijames...durr did not think of the regional council, thank you.

I noticed today that the rivers are really bad at the moment.
Need a good flood to clean them out.


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did you get much rain down your way yesterday, @BRADS...we need a good noreasterly to bring three days of the liquid stuff...

Originally Posted by EeeBees

did you get much rain down your way yesterday, @BRADS...we need a good noreasterly to bring three days of the liquid stuff...

Nothing here, went for the coat this morning but buy the time I walked to the bike it had stopped.
Our neighbour had to get the water tanker in on Tuesday, no rain of significance since Early June.


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Our local river, the manuherikera that flows into the clutha has been bad the last few years. Dogs getting sick and in some cases dying. People bathe in summer with wee kids, they get sick. I have seen the increase in algal growth. Some blame the newer dairy farms bordering the river up near omakau for it. I'm told the sewage line feeds in at ophir bridge too.I don't know for sure what the cause is, but its getting worse each year.

Originally Posted by EeeBees

did you get much rain down your way yesterday, @BRADS...we need a good noreasterly to bring three days of the liquid stuff...

Turning South this weekend?
Ngaruroro is dirty today so there's gotta be some rain somewhere.

Originally Posted by kidmac42

Our local river, the manuherikera that flows into the clutha has been bad the last few years. Dogs getting sick and in some cases dying. People bathe in summer with wee kids, they get sick. I have seen the increase in algal growth. Some blame the newer dairy farms bordering the river up near omakau for it. I'm told the sewage line feeds in at ophir bridge too.I don't know for sure what the cause is, but its getting worse each year.

We keep screwing with all the catchments and now they don't get a chance to flush themselves clean.

But the dairy crash may save them yet....

Well, I have sent emails to Fish and Game and the Regional Council and all the councillors...so will see what happens.

we get it every summer at elly and its a worry but worse is we had a outbreak in cooler wheather a year or so back.
the canterbury medical officer of health seems to be the one issueing notices here then i think it gets taken up by doc and f &g.
hardly ideal but at least its a 3 pronged way of the message getting out.thankfuly or worryingly depending on your outlook my gsp is a finicky and miserly drinker at the lake?? and when i go now,not as often as i like, i take water at anytime of the year.

thank you for your comments, @gsp follower, perhaps I should email the medical officer here too...if you are getting outbreaks in the cooler weather then the bluddy stuff must be morphing...isnt it ridiculous that people love to banter about our beautiful isles yet you have to take drinking water for your dog......what does it all say about our pristine rivers...when you cannot take your dog for a swim on a hot day or spend a nice afternoon with some water dummy work without fear of it perishing...

if you are getting outbreaks in the cooler weather then the bluddy stuff must be morphing

perhaps i should have been clearer it was unseasonal warmth at a cooler time of the year combined with a lake opening to pre empt a heavy rain possibility making a already high lake level worse.
, that exasperated the outbreak off the back of the resulting unseasonal and quite lengthy warm wheather combined with the expected rain bypassing the lake and not a southerly in sight.
basicly from what i understand the algae is ever present in the lakes/rivers.
but low water levels heat and or unseasonal combinations of both make it flare up and become toxic.
im presuming the concentration of runoff with heat and less area to dilute in wouldnt help.
the best the local boffins seem to be able to come up with is stay away or open the lake.
presumembly so the stuff drys up on the resulting exposed areas and is de dangered quickly[tho more of it would be exposed to dogs and people even if for a lesser time hence the stayaway] or that a southerly of sufficient strength to flush the lake out without closing it to soon comes along.
from which i gather salt water is a potent weapon in knocking the shite out of it.

Well, I have received an email from one of the councillors...it seems that the spore counts etc are monitored and the council has even consulted with veterinarians etc...some signage is also put up in some areas )Lake Tutira) but as the writer stated they cannot be monitoring every part of the rivers...it was hoped that at each access point a sign could be erected so that people are hit with concern, so to speak...will keep trying and I was given the name and fone number to a scientist who I will ring and have a talk to ...

interesting eebees pretty sure ive never seen warning signs at the lake.