Vermont will try a different attack on cyanobacteria at state’s only ‘lake in crisis’ – Knowhere News

Vermont will try a different attack on cyanobacteria at state’s only ‘lake in crisis’ – Knowhere News

Beginning this fall, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources has approved a plan to deploy an aluminum chemical to suppress cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Carmi. The Franklin County lake was designated Vermont’s only lake in crisis in 2018, and this is the most recent in a ten-plus-year attempt to eliminate poisonous blue-green algae blooms on the lake. Lake Carmi is a well-liked bathing and boating destination. Additionally, it has a state park w…