ApocaDocs: Lake George hits 23rd 'dead zone' summer

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Posted Sun Oct 11 2009: from Albany Times-Union:


	Lake George hits 23rd 'dead zone' summer http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1255279105 With new rules to protect Lake George's streams still to be unveiled, this summer marked the 23rd in a row in which a pollution-fueled "dead zone" formed in deep water at the southernmost end of the lake. From the village of Lake George toward Tea Island, oxygen levels at the bottom of the lake drop during the summer as a mix of nutrients from fertilizers, storm runoff and septic leakage fuels microbial activity. The microbes consume increasing amounts of oxygen, which leaves too little for fish and other aquatic life to survive. Bauer's group has been pushing for the creation of new rules to limit building and other development around 150 streams that feed the lake. Those streams are the source of much of the pollution that reaches the lake.

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'Doc Jim says:

It had such promise as a teenager. Now the dead zone is a slacker.