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Klamath Lake blue-green algae hype


 Here is an old post I dug up on the blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) from Klamath Lake:

Personally I would not get near their products.  When they first brought out Super Blue-Green Algae they claimed it was harvested from a pristine lake. What a crock!!! Klamath Lake is highly polluted with agricultural runoff, and it is the manure, phosphates, and nitrates that feed the algae. By the way algae does not grow abundantly in "pristine" lakes because it needs the above nutrients. But look at how the company presents the lake and algae in their website:

"
The Perfect Spot

Cell Tech is located in
Klamath Falls, a small town in south-central Oregon at the foot of the Cascade mountain range. The nearby snow-covered mountains supply the rich abundance of water and minerals for the algae's phenomenal growth."

Also from Cell Tech:

"Is
Upper Klamath Lake polluted?

No,
Upper Klamath Lake is not polluted in the traditional sense of the word. Upper Klamath Lake is an extraordinary natural environment. However, because the amount of plant matter in the lake is above the limit established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agency has listed the lake as "water quality impaired". The lake is out of compliance with cool-water lake criteria for pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen concentration, and chlorophyll-A (Monda and Saiki, 1993). These parameters are closely tied to the lake’s tremendous productivity and are indicative of nutrient-rich conditions that are responsible for the growth of this unique species of the cool-water algae, Aph. flos-aquae (Gearheart et al., 1995; Bortleson and Fretwell, 1993; Kann and Smith, 1993; Miller and Tash, 1967).

Repeated testing has revealed no toxic pollutants such as heavy metals or organochlorides in
Upper Klamath Lake water or in the lake bed."

Here is what the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has to say about pollution in the lake:

http://www.deq.state.or.us/lab/wqm/wqi/klamath/klamath3.htm

You might find this interesting as well:

http://www.klamathbasin.info/refugewaterfacts.pdf


"Refuge farming sends large quantities of polluted agricultural runoff tainted with pesticides, fertilizers, and
herbicides into refuge waters and the already heavily-polluted Klamath River. Water quality in
Tule Lake is
currently so poor, blankets of algae cover extensive areas of open water on the refuge in summer.9
Agricultural pollution has reduced species diversity on the refuges and elsewhere in the
Klamath Basin
(Dileanis et al., 1996)."

http://www.waterwatch.org/fact_n_fiction.htm

FACT:  The Irrigation Project that drains water from the Klamath is also the primary source of pollution in the river.  The Bureau of Reclamation’s massive Klamath Irrigation Project is largely responsible for the Klamath’s poor water quality.  Agricultural runoff laced with pesticides, fertilizers, and animal waste flows from the Project down the Klamath Straits Drain and into the
Klamath River.  Much of this pollution stays in the river all the way to its mouth, and when water flows are low, the pollution is more concentrated.   

http://www.andykerr.net/KlamathBasin/TuleLakeRotarySpeech.html

"
Oregon's largest lake, Klamath Lake, is dying. For decades, we have used the lake as an agricultural sewer to collect the polluted runoff of the watershed. We have used this great lake as a water tank for farming. We have shrunk the lake by cutting off its marshes. We have abused the lake to the point that during certain periods of the summer and in certain parts of the lake, it is toxic to fish life—put live trout in that water and they die. "

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/kes/sr1023nutrientloading.pdf

"Klamath and Agency lakes
(referred to as
Klamath Lake), the main
source of water supply for KIP, is in
advanced stages of eutrophication. The
80,000-acre lake has an average depth of
only 8 feet. High phosphorus (P) content
in the lake supports massive blue-green
algae (Aphanizomenon flos-aquae)
blooms in summer months. The die-off
of algae blooms creates conditions toxic
to resident fish, including pH near 10.0,
dissolved oxygen levels less than 2.0
mg/l, and un-ionized ammonia
concentrations near 1.0 ppm."

"USGS studies of drainage from agricultural lands adjacent
to
Klamath Lake implicated these lands
as major sources of P loading (Miller
and Tash, 1967 and Snyder and Morace,
1997)."

A little about the company:

http://www.herbalgram.org/wholefoodsmarket/herbclip/review.asp?i=41978

Cell Tech sued:

http://www.mlmwatch.org/04C/CT/suit.html


Cell Tech also claims the algae is 100% safe. Yet I have talked to several people who became very sick after taking it. This may help explain why:

http://www.life.ca/nl/68/algae.html

 

 
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