Sentences with phrase «algal toxins from»

«This major investment will ensure that Auburn and Owasco residents continue to have access to clean drinking water and will prevent harmful algal toxins from contaminating the water supply,» Cuomo said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is celebrating the installation of treatment systems that aim to prevent algal toxins from entering the drinking water supplies for the city of Auburn and town of Owasco.

Cuomo is celebrating the installation of treatment systems that aim to prevent algal toxins from entering the drinking water supplies for the city of Auburn and town of Owasco.

Not exact matches

The researchers found that 99 percent of mussels collected from the bay were contaminated with at least one algal toxin, and 37 percent contained four distinct kinds of toxins.

Researchers monitoring San Francisco Bay for algal toxins have found a surprising array of different toxins in the water and in mussels collected from the bay.

Through monitoring and evaluating activities, scientists track algal blooms, rainfall shifts, frog survival, air quality, possible toxins in decomposing trash — anything affecting or resulting from an environmental factor.

These outbursts of algal exuberance sometimes have a dark side: Algal toxins have been blamed for everything from fish kills in North Carolina to a manatee massacre in Florida to the 1987 deaths of four Canadians who consumed tainted musalgal exuberance sometimes have a dark side: Algal toxins have been blamed for everything from fish kills in North Carolina to a manatee massacre in Florida to the 1987 deaths of four Canadians who consumed tainted musAlgal toxins have been blamed for everything from fish kills in North Carolina to a manatee massacre in Florida to the 1987 deaths of four Canadians who consumed tainted mussels.

«It has long been thought that the algal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom Conferalgal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom ConferAlgal Bloom Conference.

In August, hundreds of thousands of people in Toledo, Ohio, were left without tap water for days when toxins from an algal bloom in Lake Erie were found in the water supply.

Roughly two thousand cases of human poisoning are recorded globally each year from eating fish and shell - fish contaminated with algal toxins, resulting in about three hundred deaths per year.