“For the first time in 60 years there is not a canal boat between Montezuma and Syracuse. In this section the improved Erie Canal opened for navigation in 1859. The
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On the morning of July 4, Cayuga Lake’s first suspected harmful algal bloom of the season was spotted on the shoreline near the Beacon Bay Marina at the lake’s northeastern tip. Tests showed that its water samples easily exceeded the state’s cutoff for a “high toxin” bloom.
Samples taken of this July 21 bloom north of the Village of Cayuga showed cyanobacteria levels greater than 25 times the state definition of “high toxin.”