Our help is needed to once again fix Lake Erie’s Blue-Green Algae problem! Since the 1960’s Lake Erie has had a thick sheet of Blue-Green Algae growing, threatening the lives of thousands of animals and humans that depend on it for fresh water and food. In the mid 1960’s Lake Erie was so polluted that TIME Magazine declared it as “ In danger of dying of suffocation.” The Cuyahoga River was so bad that it caught on fire multiple times, the Mayor of Cleveland declared war on pollution! It was described as “... a skin-like substance on the water’s surface, so thick that people could write their names in it.” writes Heather Brady of The New York Times. In an immense act to clean up, People from all over helped to clean up Lake Erie and farmers
