Lake Erie needs our help desperately! The danger is that Erie is so polluted with raw sewage and poisonous chemicals, blue and green algae is a huge problem right now, because of the heat, it keeps on reproducing this fatal mush. 1960 was the most polluted it's ever been, so much pollution they protested to make the lake better. The lake was full of Nitrogen and Phosphate. Dead fish littered the shoreline, the lake was remembered as “dead lake’’.
The United States signed a treaty with Canada called the Lake's Water Act in 1972. They attempted to lower the amount of pollution entering the lakes. Most of the pollution came from the Cuyahoga River. The river is so polluted that it caught fire in 1968, remembered by many they called the river ‘’burning
The United States signed a treaty with Canada called the Lake's Water Act in 1972. They attempted to lower the amount of pollution entering the lakes. Most of the pollution came from the Cuyahoga River. The river is so polluted that it caught fire in 1968, remembered by many they called the river ‘’burning