Lake Champlain water quality: The fight to control harmful algal blooms

Assessing Lake Champlain water quality and the 35-year fight to control harmful algal blooms

Join Explorer water reporter Zach Matson as he moderates a panel of water quality experts and environmental leaders tackling Lake Champlain's persistent water quality challenges. For over three decades, communities and advocates across Lake Champlain’s sprawling watershed have sought to control phosphorus, a key nutrient powering harmful algal blooms in the lake and fueling more public beach closures as summers get hotter.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in wastewater plant upgrades, agricultural best practices and stormwater and erosion control projects, but phosphorus levels remain stubbornly persistent.

Location: SUNY Plattsburgh, Angell College Center/Alumni Conference Roo

Panelists:

• Jenny Patterson, executive director of the Lake Champlain Committee
• Julie Silverman, Lake Champlain Lakekeeper with the Conservation Law Foundation
• Sue Hagar, New York watershed coordinator for the Champlain Watershed Improvement Coalition of New York
• Brendan Wiltse, executive director of the Lake George Association

Thank you to our sponsors:

The Adirondack Explorer's reporting on Lake Champlain water quality was made possible in part by funding from the Lake Champlain Basin Program.

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