Erie

dumped into the lake on purpose. All of this pollution gave Lake Erie many bad vibes, which led to the nicknames Lake On Fire or Dead Lake. Lake on Fire is due to the Lake catching fire many times. “As a result of these pollutants, Lake Erie contained increased levels of phosphorus and nitrogen, which contributed to eutrophication - a process that encourages the development of algal blooms.” (Rotman) People began cleanup of Lake Erie in 1972, by introducing the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water…

Don’t be a victim be the person who helps lake Erie become it’s finest . Through the bad times of Lake Eries will it ever get better It has been forty years and nothing has changed in lake Erie . It all started in the 60s with the greatest algae bloom anyone has ever seen. The algae problem all began in the…

A common refrain in 1960 was "Lake Erie is Dead." In the 1960s Lake Erie was terribly polluted. We cleaned it up, but it’s polluted once again. Lake Erie contained increased levels of phosphorus and nitrogen, which contributed to eutrophication, (a process that encourages the development of algal blooms). Since the 1960s Lake Erie has had many problems with algae. Waste water from the sewers also made their way into the lake, as this was happening factories were dumping pollutants into the…

creation at this time period , the Erie canal. The creation of the Erie canal created a route from the Atlantic ocean of the Hudson river to the great lakes of lake Erie, helping stimulate the economy of America and the state of New york, which Erie canal ran through, because of Erie canal , it shaped America’s network inside and outside its borders during the Industrial Revolution by technological innovation , economic globalization, commerce and trade. The Erie canal opened in the…

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…

Did you know Lake Erie is called the “burning river” or “dead lake”? Sixth of Lake Erie's water was covered in toxic algae. Since so many algae is in Lake Erie it’s spreading to other rivers such as the Maumee river which now only supplies 5 percent. Algaes has now expand across the western Lake Erie shoreline from Monroe to the Lake Erie islands. Algae bloom has been a growing problem now since the 2000s. Unregulated dumping of sewage and industrial pollutants with similar algae blooms and…

John Rutherford wrote this article about the Erie Canal to the people of New York informing them of the recent concerns about who is in control of the canal, who can transport goods by the canal, and how the canal will operate. He uses examples and details telling New York that some Citizens of the Western States will not use the canal because they believe it will be to be trafficked by the big cities’ trade instead. This causing them to continue using other waterways including the Welland canal…

Transportation in northern parts of America was a dangerous, long and hard labor until the Erie canal came and made life a lot easier. The Erie canal was made in 1817 and finished in 1825, it cost over seven million dollars for the 363 mile long waterway. Was the canal better than the roads or was it consider obsolete or inferior to the roads? The roads are more expensive, require more mules or horses to pull and overall takes longer. The canal is cheaper, faster and safer than the roads but its…

The Brainerd lakes area is a beautiful tourist attraction in central Minnesota. Thousands of people come to the huge resorts and their elaborate lake houses every summer. Many people come to fish as well which is one of the main attractions to the place I grew up in. Zebra mussels have been invading some of the lakes in our area now which is alarming. They are most prominent in Gull Lake which is a very large tourist lake which has 12 resorts and 5 separate restaurants that are accessible by…

Zebra Mussels Zebra mussels are a small freshwater mussel native to the lakes of southern Russia, deriving their name from the striped pattern typically found on their shells. Other possible patterns include white shell with brown edges as well as brown shells with white highlights. They were first described and recorded by a german zoologist by the name of Peter Simon Pallas in the year 1769 (USGS. 2015). Zebra mussels can still be found in Russian rivers but have also been accidentally…