Milford Lake placed under a public health warning for blue-green algae

http://www.ccenterdispatch.com/news/...7a43b2370.html

Has been happening every year about this time!

Dont remember hearing about the blue-green algae 10-15 yrs. ago. Whats changed with the water or environment?

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Originally Posted by fishlessDan

Dont remember hearing about the blue-green algae 10-15 yrs. ago. Whats changed with the water or environment?

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Didn't have global warming either.

This article gives some of the reasons. Big ones out of the list that I see for Milford there hasn't hardly any water release there in a long time and we have had hotter than normal temps in summer. http://www.khi.org/news/2012/may/10/...tbreaks-lakes/

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Originally Posted by skinner80

This article gives some of the reasons. Big ones out of the list that I see for Milford there hasn't hardly any water release there in a long time and we have had hotter than normal temps in summer. http://www.khi.org/news/2012/may/10/...tbreaks-lakes/

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If this is the case, then Clinton should be following up, since it has had little inflow and minimum outflow.

I wondered when Milford would be on the list as we fished it this weekend and it was pretty nasty alright. Hopefully with these nice rains we can get some releases going to help clear this stuff.