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Originally Posted by Drewski Canuck
I thought there was a PhD Candidate who was doing research using vertical plastic tubes in Lake Nakamun to test the theory that the lack of iron in our waters was the reason for the Blue Green Algae on the prairies, where the same nutrient rich water in Ontario has none?
This was a news article last summer, but that seems to be the end of it.
Has anyone any information on what came out of that project?
Iron powder is relatively easy to obtain, and if you could swing back a lake like Pigeon, or St. Anne, I think you would find support for the idea.
Drewski
Drewski
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Interesting research project. If you do find anything on this post it up. Who knows maybe the iron inhibits (or neutralizes) something that prevents (reduces) the catalyst which triggers of rapid growth and development of the stinkin' algae.
It's hard to imagine you would be able to add enough to a lake as big as pigeon where all the agriculture and septic nutrients would be effected though. you'd probably have to dump 100's of rail cars of the magic dust.... lol.
And .... are there other residual unwanted effects.
Interesting - keep us posted if you hear anything.