{"id":9013,"date":"2018-01-28T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9013"},"modified":"2018-03-06T17:54:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:54:53","slug":"clear-water-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/28\/clear-water-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear Water Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-met-lake-michigan-water-clarity-20180126-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Lake Michigan has become dramatically clearer in last 20 years \u2014 but at a steep cost<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0Tony Briscoe<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c-7npsfqifvt34x24x78x78x78x2euscjnhx2edpn.g00.chicagotribune.com\/g00\/3_c-7x78x78x78.dijdbhpusjcvof.dpn_\/c-7NPSFQIFVT34x24iuuqx3ax2fx2fx78x78x78.uscjnh.dpnx2fjnh-6b7b0892x2fuvscjofx2fdu-2627046147-g1n3957jry-tobq-jnbhfx2f861x2f861y533x3fj21d.nbslx3djnbhf_$\/$\/$\/$\/$\/$\" alt=\"Zebra mussels\" width=\"480\" \/><em>In this May 3, 2007 photo, Inland Seas Education Association instructor Conrad Heins holds a cluster of zebra mussels that were taken from Lake Michigan off Suttons Bay, Mich. (John L. Russell \/ AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Decades ago, Lake Michigan teemed with nutrients and green algae, casting a brownish-green hue that resembled the mouth of an inland river rather than a vast, open-water lake.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, the lake\u2019s swampy complexion was less than inviting to swimmers and kayakers, but it supported a robust fishing industry as several commercial companies trawled for perch, and sport fishermen cast their lines for trout. But in the past 20 years, Lake Michigan has undergone a dramatic transformation.<\/p>\n<p>In analyzing satellite images between 1998 and 2012, researchers at the Michigan Tech Research Institute were surprised to find that lakes Michigan and Huron are now clearer than Lake Superior. In a study published late last year, the researchers say limiting the amount of agricultural and sewage runoff in the lake has had an immense impact. However, the emergence of invasive mussels, which number in the trillions and have the ability to filter the entire volume of Lake Michigan in four to six days, has had an even greater effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the scientific terms, we are approaching some oceanic values,\u201d said Michael Sayers, a research engineer at Michigan Tech and co-author of the study. \u201cWe have some ways to go, but we are getting a lot closer to Lake Tahoe. A lot of times, you\u2019ll hear from people that the water is so blue it compares to something in tropical areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-met-lake-michigan-water-clarity-20180126-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Chicago Tribune<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Chicago Tribune Lake Michigan has become dramatically clearer in last 20 years \u2014 but at a steep cost by\u00a0Tony Briscoe In this May 3, 2007 photo, Inland Seas Education Association instructor Conrad Heins holds a cluster of zebra mussels that were taken from Lake Michigan off Suttons Bay, Mich. (John L. Russell \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}