A couple of weeks ago, we shared Peggy’s story with you, which speaks to the devastating health impacts of blue-green algae blooms caused by excess phosphorus pollution in our waters.
Peggy’s story was one of many that we heard while we visited Menomonie, Wisconsin, a community that experiences foul algae blooms in lakes Tainter and Menomin every year.
Today we bring you part two of our video series highlighting the impact of phosphorus pollution on Wisconsin — As you’ll see in the video, phosphorus pollution is a serious drag on the economies of communities throughout Wisconsin that, like Menomonie, experience algae blooms.
If we don’t act now to clean up our waters, we can expect more and more lakes to experience such blooms.
Please watch and share — this video is copyright free!
-Contributed by Sam Weis, Video by Daniel Mostaza
Thank you very much for posting this video. I am going to share the video on my Menomonie blog/website. I have a page posted on
My Menomonie: Lake Menomin.
I am sick of this lake. I live right up the hill from Wolske Bay and I also find it to be a complete nuisance. The lake should be a tourist attraction, not a tourist repellant.
I say fill in the bays, drain the lake, do something, anything. This is getting ridiculous. I couldn’t even go outside yesterday it smelled so bad. The blue algae is back which means I am headed out of town! We used to swim there!
OK, rant over. Thanks again! Adam