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Environmental Protection
Agency
Freshwater HAHs News
Virginia, September, 2016
Aerial view of mouth of York
River (upper left) and Mobjack
Bay and New Point Comfort
Mathews (upper Right).
Courtesy of Wolfgang K.
Vogelbein, the College of
William and Mary.
EPA's Memo "Renewed Call to Action to Reduce Nutrient Pollution arid Support
for Incremental Actions to Protect Water Quality and Public Health"
On September 22, the EPA released a memo to highlight the continued need for action to address this
challenge, calls upon states and stakeholders to intensify their efforts in collaboration with EPA, and announces
support for state planning or implementation of watershed-based, multi-stakeholder projects to reduce impacts
to public health from nitrates in sources of drinking water and from nitrogen and phosphorus pollution
contributing to harmful algal blooms.
Addressing Harmful Alaal Blooms; Nutrient Reduction Policies in Ohio's Lake
Erie Basin and Other American Water Basins
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The Center for Public Policy and Health at Kent University released a report
presenting an inventory of policy tools used in the Ohio's Lake Erie basin and other
large water basins in the US. The report provides an assessment of current "policy
tools" in regulatory interventions, expenditures of funds and resources, strategy,
planning, communications efforts, and organizational arrangements. The report also
includes other water basins in the US with ongoing management systems with
information on nutrient reduction efforts, their impacts, and findings.
Upper Mississippi River HAB Response Resource Manual
The purpose of this Response Resource Manual is to provide information to assist
the states of the Upper Mississippi River (UMR), as well as their federal partners and
others, in addressing harmful algal blooms (HABs) on the UMR. This Manual was
developed by an interagency UMR HAB Work Group, staffed by the Upper
Mississippi River Basin Association (UMRBA). Contact UMRBA's Dave Hokanson
(dhokanson(a)umrba.ora or 651-224-2880) for more information.
AWWA and WRF publish cvanotoxins guidance for water utilities
AWWA and the Water Research Foundation (WRF) have released a guide titled
"Managing Cvanotoxins in Drinking Water; A Technical Guidance Manual for
Drinking Water Professionals"and additional resources to help water professionals
detect and control cyanotoxin. The guide provides information on the preparation,
treatment, and response to cyanotoxins concerns. WRF also launched a video,
Understanding Cvanobacteria and Cvanotoxins, on the latest in source water
protection, monitoring, detection, and treatment of cyanotoxins.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Webinars
Inland HABs
Discussion Group
October 20, 2016
Workshops
Developing a HAB
Action Plan for
Alaska
December 8-9,
Alaska
Conferences
17th ICHA
October 9-14, Brazil
16th GLBAC
October 4-7, Michigan
10th ICTC
October 23-28, China
NALMS 2016
November 1-4, Canada
SET AC 2016
November 6-10, Florida
ASLO
February 26-March 3,
Hawaii
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Cyanobacteria bloom at Clear Lake, Lakeport Sign posted and dead possum at Almaden Lake,
Photos by California Department of Fish and Wildlife San Jose, photos by Bay Area News Group
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HABs Affecting Many California Lakes
This newsletter was created by Dr. Lesley V. D'Anglada, fdanalada.leslev(a)epa.aov)
Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology, United States Environmental Protection Agency
For more information visit EPA's CyanoHABs website at www.epa.aov/cvanohabs
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Recently (and not that recent) Published Articles
miR-541 Contributes to Microcvstin-LR-Induced Reproductive Toxicity through Regulating the
Expression of p!5 in Mice
Xiannan Meng, Ling Zhang, Xiang Chen, Zou Xiang, Dongmei Li and Xiaodong Han. Toxins2016, ^9), 260
Health impacts from cvanobacteria harmful algae blooms: Implications for the North American Great
Lakes
Wayne W. Carmichael and Gregory L. Boyer. Harmful Algae, Volume 54, April 2016, Pages 194-212
"Lake Bant": A five year project to solve cvanobacteria I problems
Peter Lucking and Jurgen Michele. Research Gate, September 2015
It takes two to tango: When and where dual nutrient (N & P) reductions are needed to protect lakes and
downstream ecosystems
Hans W. Paerl, J. Thad Scott, Mark J. McCarthy, Silvia E. Newell, Wayne Gardner, Karl E. Havens, Daniel K Hoffman,
Steven W. Wilhelm, and Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh. Environmental Science & Technology, September 26, 2016.
Coming Soon! FROM EPA's Region 7 Water, Wetlands and Pesticides Division, Kansas
Compilation of HAB Programs and Capacities for Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and EPA R7
EPA Region 7 and State parters are developing a State HAB Program Capacities Report Draft to summarize
the contacts and capacities to deal with HABs in the States of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. For
more information please contact Dr. Amy Shield, Region 7 HAB Coordinator at shields.amv@epa.aov.
Useful Resources
s EPA's Fish and Shellfish Newsletter
s NOAA's Experimental Lake Erie HAB Bulletin
s CA's HABs portal: Are harmful algal blooms affecting our waters?
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