Vermonters voice concerns about cleaning up Lake Champlain
Many Vermonters say the water quality in Lake Champlain is no good and they’re demanding change. As groups work to clean up the state’s largest body of water they are voicing concerns about cleaning up Lake Champlain want to know where to begin.
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Lake Champlain drinking water systems begin testing for toxins related to blue-green algae
Drinking water at 22 purification plants in Vermont along Lake Champlain began testing for the toxins occasionally released by cyanobacteria, or “blue-green algae,” according to a news release on Tuesday from the Department of Health.
Lake Champlain is the source of drinking water for about 150,000 Vermonters.
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Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center’s new program, Floating Classrooms, gives students a chance to gain STEM knowledge as they learn to sail too.
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Students from local schools are learning the ropes through a new science, math, engineering and technology program on Lake Champlain.
The Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center has offered on-craft courses since 2008, and recently created a new program, Floating Classrooms, that gives more than 900 students a year an opportunity to apply their science and math knowledge as they sail across the lake.
The hands-on learning approach at the center is part of a new state and national push for STEM programs designed to improve student aptitude in science, technology, engineering and math.
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Will Lower Property Values Be the Trend Along Lake Champlain?
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Much of the recent debate about Lake Champlain has focused on the cost of cleaning it up. The Franklin County town of Georgia has turned that around to consider: What’s the effect of a polluted lake on the value of property alongside it?
The town recently lowered assessments for 37 lakefront properties on Ferrand Road by $50,000 each, based on the seasonal blue-green algae that permeates the water in front of them
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Treated wastewater may contribute to the creation of superbugs, according to a study from researchers at UNC Charlotte.
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Researchers are studying doxycycline. Their research is showing that chlorine used to treat wastewater is actually changing the makeup of the doxycycline and forming new antibiotics,
Wastewater treatment is designed to break down biological substances, but not antibiotics. Surprisingly enough, though, we are finding in the lab that not only is chlorine not breaking down antibiotics, but it is actually creating even stronger antibiotics than the original doxycycline.
Scientists were already aware of the link between antibiotics and wastewater. For years scientists have been aware of the potential problems of antibiotics being present in wastewater…
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