Algae — Worldwide/Unknown
The 2000 residents of Ottawa County’s Carroll Township who were told to avoid their tap water last weekend [7-8 Sep 2013] can thank one person — not any one of America’s thousands of state and federal health laws — for sparing them from sickness, possibly even death.
Henry Biggert, the township’s water plant superintendent since it went online in 1998, knew he had to act fast when he saw microcystin, the potentially lethal toxin in Lake Erie’s harmful, blue-green algae, known as
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