[GSWarrior]

This lake is just southeast of Oakland and is popular hiking, biking and camping area.

[cripplecreek]

We get occasional warnings about it here in Michigan. I try to keep my dogs from drinking out of the lake by keeping a couple bowls of water out in the yard during the summer.

[vette6387]

“This lake is just southeast of Oakland and is popular hiking, biking and camping area.”

I’ve gone kayaking there when the duck $hit on the dock was so deep you needed waders. No wonder the algae is there. The EBRP District can afford a LEO Group complete with a new helicopter, but they don’t have the money to keep the lake clean!

[SpaceBar]

"It's a tremendous shock," Stone said sadly, "our kids are teenagers, and they're devastated by it."

The peculiar thing is that the people who bike, exercise, and walk their dogs in such areas are the same people who work at various biotech firms, software companies, legal firms, teach at colleges, and otherwise form the working stiffs of one of the most affluent areas on the planet. Yet they cannot grasp the concept of toxic microbial growth in standing water that may be harmful to animals. I'd expect such a reaction from a family in rural china that rely on a stagnant pond for water. Get over it, 2.4 kid family living in Orinda in a modest home listing for 1.2 mill that would fetch 65 grand anywhere else. Your dog is dead.

[RegulatorCountry]

I don’t know about a 300 acre lake but there are treatments for pond algae that are not regarded as being environmentally damaging. A runoff pond near my mom had a problem with red algae for several years during dry weather, it’s gone now. Stocking with certain species of fish can help, for instance grass carp. They’re crazy, leaping out and slapping the surface, they’ll scare you out on a walk and really go at it with a boat motor, but they keep the green “snot” algae gone so people put up with the behavior.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Katie Stone, I’m so very sorry for the loss of your Josie.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

The Doggie Ping list is for FReepers who would like to be notified of threads relating to all things canid. If you would like to join the Doggie Ping Pack (or be unleashed from it), FReemail me.

[1_Rain_Drop]

Don’t eat yellow snow or drink green water.

In this day and age, isn’t there some known natural green algae eating plankton or fish or snail or something that could take care of the problem?

OTOH, “going Green” appears to be toxic to the environment, so all the green people out there....beware! you’re killing something.

[gundog]

How many of these folks have septic systems abutting the lake?

[bert]

veggies kill