The simmering summer of 2010 is coughing up a sickly and unprecedented batch of toxic blue-green algae in western Lake Erie and nearly a dozen of Ohio’s shallow, inland lakes.
Many lake scientists are speculating that it’s only going to get worse.
“We’re going to see a greener and greener lake until changes are made,” said John Hageman of Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University’s water research station on Gibraltar Island in western Lake Erie. “Everything points to this just getting worse.”
That might be hard to imagine.