Poisonous Algae Blooms are Killing Dogs

www.nytimes.com:Algae Can Poison Your Dog

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/us/blue-green-algae-dogs.html

Dog owners have reported this summer that their pets became fatally ill after swimming in freshwater lakes and ponds, apparently after ingesting water laden with toxic blue-green algae.

Intense blooms have led to swimming bans from lakes in the Pacific Northwest to the entire Mississippi seacoast, to Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey’s largest lake. Algal blooms tend to thrive in high temperatures and after heavy rains carry fertilizer runoff and sewage into waterways.

Did you notify DPW so they can test the duck pond in Memorial Park?   I haven't been by the duck pond in quite a while so I have no idea what that water looks like now.

EricBurbank said:

Did you notify DPW so they can test the duck pond in Memorial Park?   I haven't been by the duck pond in quite a while so I have no idea what that water looks like now.

 When we walked by early this week, I saw that there was a vivid green coating on the top of most of the water. There were also people fishing there (I wish the town would post a large "no fishing" sign right by the pond so people will listen when you tell them they cannot fish there!) Anyway, I had wondered about this, too, when I heard the stories of the dogs who died in the South. I'm not home right now, so I can't go check it, but I will give Mr. Roe a call and ask about it.