Thread: Blue-green algae

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.