The alum to be spread across Togus Pond binds with phosphorus in the lake already that is a food source for the unwanted algae. By binding with the phosphorous down at the bottom of the lake, it ...

A $1 million investment in alum treatment on the lake is expected to clear up algae blooms that have for years caused murky, green water and toxic conditions in late summer.

Togus Pond, ringed by many camps and homes, is on the Maine Impaired Lakes Priority List, and lake association leaders hope the alum treatment, and other steps taken in recent years, will help ...

A small treatment to reduce the amount of milfoil in East Monponsett Pond began Monday, June 22. ... bind the phosphorus to the alum so that the algae cannot use the phosphorus.

But Lee Lyman, the president of Lycott Environmental Research, the Southbridge company that treated the pond, said his company's alum treatment had nothing to do with the death of the fish.

I am a property abutter to Uncle Harvey’s Pond, at 15 Uncle Harvey’s Way, Orleans. As an abutter, I object to using alum in Uncle Harvey’s Pond for these reasons: Over a long period of use ...

A contractor will spray a concentrated solution of alum over 4,900 central acres of ... Toxic algae also were discovered at 19 other public ponds and lakes last year. The algae at Grand Lake ...

MARSTONS MILLS — During the first few days of December, observers looking out at Mystic Lake may have noticed an unusual sight: bands of milky clouds fanning out from beneath a pontoon-style boat as ...

Residents might notice a bit more green sludge on the surfaces of local lakes this summer. Spring Lake and Upper Prior Lake have been on the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s impaired wate… ...

If it works, the state would have at least one weapon to fight the blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, that are showing up in lakes and ponds across the state from Lake Erie to Shawnee State Park.