BGA hit ft gibson!!!!

[PUMPKIN]

Wont be long and swimming will be off limits at area lakes!!!

Channel 6 can now bag on another local lake.

 

[inactive]

It skipped over Hudson?

I wonder how long before it hits Webbers Falls and Kerr, or creeps upstream into Spavinaw and Eucha?


At least we still have Tenkiller, for now.

 

[Zombie]

ummm what

 

[Oklahomabassin]

ummm what

Blue Green Algae

 

[Biggsly]

I just got an e-mail saying that Lake Arcadia is closed because of bacteria.

 

[itzkwik]

Ecoli,

 

[Werewolf]

Blue Green Algae really isn't algae it is a cyanobacteria. And an anaerobic one which makes them particularly nasty. Oxygen kills them pretty darn fast so if they're getting into our lakes there is something pretty serious going on.

That said BGA shows up in stagnant, high temp, low light, water where oxygen levels are low to non-existent. Somehow I don't see how those conditions can be all that common in a lake.

My guess is the problem is actually a real algae, not BGA and some reporter was doing a visual self inspection of their rectum from the inside.

 

[kgoodrich]

Well there hasnt been that much rain so I can see where the water isnt moving so getting stagnant. is there a list of every lake this has happend to and if it has happend to other states?

 

[Eric_Williams]

Well glad I sold my boat last year. This may make it had to sell lake property also

 

[kgoodrich]

lets hope it dosent wreck the ecosystems of the lakes its hard to revive a dead lake.