Ohio researchers have devised a new way to head off harmful algal blooms, an issue that gained urgency after Toledo’s 2014 water crisis left hundreds of thousands of residents without safe drinking water.
Their approach calls for floating buoys that dispense algae-killing chemicals gradually, with the aim of treating the water before a bloom expands unchecked.
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According to The Allegheny Front, researchers at the University of Toledo have created “algae-busting” buoys meant to limit harmful blooms in waters such as Lake Erie before they become firmly established.
Yakov Lapitsky, a professor and chair of the University of Toledo’s Department of Chemical Engineering, said the technology is meant to be deployed early in bloom season…