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Algae floats in the water at the Maumee Bay State Park marina in Lake Erie in Oregon, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. Pungent, ugly and often-toxic algae is spreading
across U.S. waterways, even as the government spends vast sums of money to help farmers reduce fertilizer runoff that helps cause it.
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Toxic Algae Flourishes Despite Vast Sums Spent to Prevent It

By JOHN FLESHER ern Lake Erie. a rising threat to U.S. waters. killing animals and hammering the
ANGELIKI KASTANIS And Steele, a semipro angler, was “It attacked my immune system economy.
Associated Press sickened by it. and shut down my body’s ability to The scourge is escalating from oc-
MONROE, Mich. (AP) — Compet- Driving home to Port Huron, Michi- sweat,” Steele said. casional nuisance to severe, wide-
ing in a bass fishing tournament gan, he felt lightheaded, nau- “If I wasn’t a healthy 51-year-old spread hazard, overwhelming gov-
two years ago, Todd Steele cast seous. and had some type of medical ernment efforts to curb a leading
his rod from his 21-foot motorboat By the next morning he was too diz- condition, it could have killed me.” cause: fertilizer runoff from farms.
— unaware that he was being poi- zy to stand, his overheated body He recovered, but Lake Erie hasn’t.
soned. covered with painful hives. Nor have other waterways choked Continued on Page 3
A thick, green scum coated west- Hospital tests blamed toxic algae, with algae that’s sickening people,