Toxic blue-green algal blooms are fouling Minnesota waters this summer

Toxic blue-green algal blooms are fouling Minnesota waters this summer

SLEEPY EYE, Minn. — On a quiet, summer day, Laurie Hammerschmidt and her dog Daisy, a 5-year-old boxer, take their routine walk around the shore of Sleepy Eye Lake. “Daisy likes to walk along the beach, it’s her favorite place to go,” Hammerschmidt, 60, said. “And then she goes and does the ‘zoomies,’ as they call them. She doesn’t go in the water unless I walk in the water with her.” Since Daisy doesn’t swim, Hammerschmidt isn’t worried about h…