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- Lynx55, on 07/30/2008, -1/+29I DO live near Lake Michigan...actually practically on it. Green Bay. BUT...I never do anything but look at it! Looks beautiful....guess it's not. But that comes as no surprise to us, as our beaches are usually closed many times during the summer due to this. So sad....
- inactive, on 07/30/2008, -1/+26..or maybe the planet is trying to kill us before we kill it.
- HeavySausage, on 07/30/2008, -0/+21Stop dumping crap into the lake. Problem solved.
- acmaurer, on 07/30/2008, -1/+21It's crazy that the ecosystem is changing faster than they can study it - i hope they can find a way to keep up!
- inactive, on 07/30/2008, -0/+17Too bad those mussels aren't edible.
- inactive, on 07/30/2008, -0/+13What the h---? Did you see that video? That stuff is everywhere!
- Briankb68, on 07/30/2008, -0/+11Funny how you have the whole internet still to explore and yet you decided to stop and display your extra monkey antics here.
- vsujohn2, on 07/30/2008, -3/+13Darling it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea! - inactive, on 07/30/2008, -0/+10You should see it in person.
But to do that, all you have to do some days is go to the beach. Cladophora galore. - inactive, on 07/30/2008, -1/+10It's something, isn't it?
- ohnoerino, on 07/30/2008, -1/+10Oh yes, that has to be it...
- iluvhatemail, on 07/30/2008, -1/+9we've been killing that lake for years, i'm surprised anything can still survive in it. ***** BP
- ohnoerino, on 07/30/2008, -0/+8This is shocking to me. I had heard that there were a ton of non-native species in the Lake, but never realized how many.
- inactive, on 07/30/2008, -1/+9Clean water is a million times more valuable than oil but most people in America take it for granted. If they ever had to do without clean water for just a day then they would realize how much it is truly worth but for now Americans will just keep destroying their waterways and drinking water sources until one day we will have no more clean water.
Clean water is more important than just drinking,it also affects our food supplies, our health and quality of life. - TheRedCoat, on 07/30/2008, -2/+9Don't shout your sexual orientation at me!
- gforce051, on 07/30/2008, -0/+7Isn't it funny how we have developed nuclear weapons and space travel and have yet to design a microwave that can heat evenly?
- inactive, on 07/30/2008, -2/+9Actually, the quagga mussels are, researchers point out. It's just that they filter out all the bacteria and botulinin endemic to the cladophora mats -- thus making them really toxic.
There was a big migratory bird die-off last fall in the Great Lakes, and this new ecosystem was the suspected culprit. In the hypothesis, mussels bioaccumulated Type-E botulism toxin, gobies ate the tainted mussels and grew poisoned and week, and migrating grebes, diving ducks and loons ate the weakened gobies -- each step more potently poisoned than the last. Thousands of dead birds washed up onto the shores of Michigan's UP and upper lower peninsula. Gross.
-- Jas. - and303, on 07/30/2008, -0/+6I'm pretty sure the excessive amounts of sewage that the city of Milwaukee dumped into it have a lot to do with this as well. Or perhaps the excessive amounts of ammonia and industrial sludge that BP completely legally gets away with dumping.
Funny how the owner of the Tribune (Sam Zell) is the same billionaire douche bag that invests in the companies dumping things into the lake. I wonder why the article doesn't dig a little deeper, hmm? - wazzledoozle2, on 07/30/2008, -1/+7lmfao, great reply.
- tschau, on 07/30/2008, -0/+5Your friend is a total wuss, and that's all there is. The western michigan beaches are great, and I've never heard of any sickness outbreaks.
Head south down toward gary indiana and over to Chicago and it gets a little nasty though. - KtownReject0358, on 07/30/2008, -1/+6I live near Lake Michigan and have grown up with it. It's deep as *****, cold as *****, and usually is too contaminated to swim in. If you swim in the shallow water you're fine. I wouldn't suggest going too far out because it is cold as *****. Pretty though.
- stormofswords, on 07/30/2008, -2/+6Just let the free market take care of illegal dumping.
lol libertarians. - innocentsinner, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4What do they got?
A lot of sand
We've got E.coli bacteria and botulism spores. - aaron4, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4i work at a beach in michigan and didnt have to work toady cause there was e. coli in the water.
- rheaume, on 07/30/2008, -0/+4Oh watch out they will digg you down, they hate the truth
- inactive, on 07/30/2008, -1/+5It sure is, what with all those crazy sea demons washing ashore..
- HeavySausage, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4Even legal dumping miles off the cost is no f'ing good. I remember when medical syringes started washing up on the shores back in the early 90's.
Idiocracy. One of the best under-rated films ever. Check it out people. :) - tschau, on 07/30/2008, -0/+3Over on the Michigan side it's really beautiful and I've never heard of a beach closing or health problems. Sucks that it's worse up there. The chicago area has the occasional problem too, I know.
- wazzledoozle2, on 07/30/2008, -2/+5"I DO... BUT"
- inactive, on 07/30/2008, -1/+4KILL IT WITH F...
oh wait. - tightscrummy, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3Don't call me toady ***** head.
- iXneonXi, on 07/30/2008, -1/+4Useful thumbnail or no thumbnail please. Regarding the article, I have a friend who lives in Kalamazoo, and when he visits the lake he would NEVER consider swimming. I suppose this is why. Then again, living by False River in Louisiana, and having swam in it, I guess it really is a matter of personal preference. Now *that* place is disgusting.
- PabloIV, on 07/30/2008, -0/+3Is this our fault?
The article sounds more excited than wary and guilty. - oorofl, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3Yeah a picture of Lake Michigan is completely irrelevant to this article about Lake Michigan.
- BlackCow, on 07/30/2008, -0/+3*****, I just swam in it today! Good thing I don't live here. Yikes. The water looks really clean and beautiful though, almost like tropical water.
- Ryan166, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3go packers.
- Crucible1001, on 07/30/2008, -0/+2That sucks. I used to swim there when I was a kid. This kind of thing was never a problem.
- UserNull, on 07/30/2008, -1/+3It was nice to read this. Most stories talk about how an eco-system has been completely wiped out and no life exists. Then it just turned out that's what happened, just not by us this time.
- thegrantman, on 07/30/2008, -0/+2Is this affecting the other lakes?
- Oddog, on 07/30/2008, -0/+2have you ever heard about the green waters of Lake Chaohu (china) ?
a few time ago i saw this picture and i couldn't believe my eyes: http://www.sea-way.org/blog/chaohu7.JPG
here is the full story about this worrying scenario: http://seawayblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/thick-green ... - leerayIG88, on 07/30/2008, -1/+3I think it's time..Human eats human.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Yes -- Lakes Michigan and Huron are the same lake, hydrologically speaking, and they're behaving the same way. Lake Ontario has seen some of this, and so has Lake Erie -- though Lake Erie, being shallower and having a different nutrient balance, has rected somewhat differently.
Lake Superior alone is deep enough and cold enough (and isolated enough? why the difference, really?) not to be seriously affected by these species except in shallow, warm harbors.
But I could see it in Lake Michigan, which is at my backdoor.
-- James. - shakey77, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Could this possibly have anything to do with all the cities in Illinois and Wisconsin (can someone say Evanston) that dumps straight sewage and other crap into the lake? Of course not, because that would mean that we were holding our government accountable and we all know that does not happen in Chicago or even in the U.S.
- 808ethan, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2We can win that fight!
- iXneonXi, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1I dugg you up tschau, because my friend can be quite a wuss. Having not visited the beaches in person, I cannot make any personal assumptions and must use the information I have been given.
Crucible, were you referring to Lake Michigan or False River? Either way, time has definitely changed the environment, however so has society. I know my grandfather to quote would not "give a rat's ass" about the quality of the water if he wanted to rest and take a dip and enjoy himself. - inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Truth is cool.
- Frogee, on 07/30/2008, -3/+4OHM NOM NOM NOM
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Researchers I talked to for this story and others say the same thing as you, trumpcard. It is sad, and weird, and a little bit cool that there's still so much to learn about right under our noses.
-- James.
(OK, OK, digg says I talk to much. Thanks everyone for the great comments -- email me at work if there are any more questions I can answer. My email's on the bottom of this story.) - norman619, on 07/30/2008, -1/+2Under the sea we find dirt, rocks, and magma. Maybe they meant to say "In the sea, it's ... kinda creepy"
- skoober, on 07/31/2008, -1/+2ware is michigan? is that like.. some totally random place in the americas?
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