LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – The state of Nebraska has issued a health alert for Harmful Algal Blooms, also known as toxic blue-green algae, at Bluestem Lake in Lancaster County.
Cub Creek Lake in Jefferson County will remain on health alert this week after being on alert last week.
Samples taken earlier this week at the lakes on alert measure above the threshold of eight parts per billion of total microcystin, which is a toxin released by certain strains of blue-green algae…