Water samples collected from Lake Loramie are being analyzed to determine if algal toxins are present, but a full analysis won’t be available until next week, OEPA said. In the meantime, Lake Loramie State Park remains open to visitors.
Like Grand Lake St. Marys, which has virtually shut down because of a cyanobacteria outbreak, Lake Loramie was originally constructed as a storage reservoir to supply water for the Miami-Erie Canal system.
Cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, has shown up at eight state parks this summer including West Branch State Park near Ravenna in Portage County and along a Lake Erie beach at East Harbor State Park in Ottawa County. The algae blooms have been seen for years in Lake Erie’s shallow western basin.
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