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Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Geri Allan-Helmer May 12, 2021 - 4:30 PM The B.C. government has created a website to help identify algae blooms on lake. The Algae Watch website has a submission tool that helps to identify a possible algae bloom, while aiding the province in keeping tabs on lake health, according to a news release from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy. “The website can help us track changes over time and identify areas of the province that are getting more algae blooms. We can then start investigating what’s causing these changes,” mini...

May 12, 2021 | 11:20 AM FORT ST. JOHN, B.C – The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy has developed an educational Algae Watch website. The website invites people to contribute any information on B.C.’s algae situation and will help community members recognize potentially harmful algae blooms and differentiate algae blooms from other natural phenomena like foam or pollen which can look like blooms. There will be an online submission form on the website that will give information regarding the location, extent, and photos of the algae bloom. It will also have links to health...

  VICTORIA -- The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change has developed a new website to offer more information about increasingly common algae blooms in B.C. waterways and help people understand why some of the organisms might pose a safety risk. The site was developed after a bloom last summer turned the usually pristine waters at one end of Shuswap Lake into what the ministry describes as “pea soup” -- the first time such a bloom had occurred there. Most algae growth, like the one that has now cleared in Shuswap Lake, are harmless -- but some algae has the potential to produce ...