SEPA

United States
Environmental Protection
Agency

July 2019

Freshwater HABs Newsletter

USEFUL ERA'S COMMUNICATION RESOURCES
for the HABs SEASON

Infographic arid ready-to-use downloadable templates and graphics to develop
risk communication materials, including: press releases, drinking water
advisories, recreational criteria/swimming advisories, social media and text
alerts, talking points and messages for consumers and recreators, frequently
asked questions and factsheets. Click here to access the Drinking Water
Cvanotoxins Risk Communication Toolbox and here to access the Tools
to Communicate about CvanoHABs in Recreational Waters

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NOAA's Request for Comments to Inform the Dewelopment of a
Policy to Determine HAB and hypoxia Events of National
Significance in Marine and Coastal Waters

NOAA is requesting public input on the criteria that it will use to determine HAB
and hypoxia "events of national significance" in marine and coastal waters. The
proposed language and instructions for providing input are in a Federal Register
notice and are summarized below. The recent reauthorization of the Harmful
Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act fHABHRCA'l (Public Law 115-
423) requires NOAA to determine whether HAB and hypoxia events are of
national significance in marine and coastal waters. Upon such a determination
"...the appropriate Federal official is authorized to make sums available to the
affected State or local government for the purposes of assessing and mitigating
the detrimental environmental, economic, subsistence use, and public health
effects of the event..."

Factors to be considered in making a determination include the toxicity of a HAB,
severity of hypoxia, potential for spread, economic impact, relative size in relation
to the past five occurrences, and the geographic scope. NOAA is accepting
comments to inform the development of the policy for assessing these
considerations and whether additional factors should be considered. The
determination process optimally will include quantitative and qualitative means of
assessment. The agency will publish the draft policy for formal public review and
comment later this year.

Please refer to this webpage or the Federal Register Notice for more specific
information on the elements that NOAA would like to consider, and for details
about providing feedback.

Willow Creek Reservoir
Nebraska, July 2019

UPCOMING EVENTS

10th US HAB
Symposium
Nov 3-8, 2019
Orange Beach, Alabama

Important Links:

Conference Schedule
Plenaries Speakers
Registration

SETAC North America
Annual Meeting,
Benthic and Pelagic
HABs and their Toxins:
Detection, Fate,
Effects. Monitoring
and Management
Nov 3-7, 2019
Toronto, Canada

This newsletter was
created by Dr. Lesiev
D'Anolada. Office of
Science and Technology,
Office of Water. Mention
of trade names, products,
or services does not
convey and should not be
interpreted as conveying
official EPA endorsement,
approval or

recommendation for use.

To sign up for the
newsletter send an email
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Please visit the EPA's
CyanoHABs in Water
Bodies website here.

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Blooms, Beach Closures and Health Advisories* July 2019

* Include blooms, cautions, warnings, public health advisories, closings and detections over the State's
threshold, due to the presence of algae, toxins or both. This is not a comprehensive list, and many blooms may
have not been reported or lakes are not actively monitored.

California (25): Lake Chabot, San Luis Reservoir, Lake Perris, Moreno Swim Beach, Lake Anza, Castaic Lake, Silverwood Lake,
Pyramid Lake, Castaic Lake, Lake Temescal, Lake Gregory, Whelan Lake, Willow Lake, Stanislaus River upstream of New
Melones Lake, Clear Lake, Upper Blue Lakes, Iron Gate Reservoir, Copco Reservoir, Quarry Lakes, Lake Oroville, Stone Lakes
National Wildlife Refuge, Ward Island, San Joaquin River, Sawpit Swim Beach

Florida (10): Yalaha Canal and Lakeshore Drive, Lake Weir near Eatons Beach, St. Johns River, Doctor's Lake, Lake

Okeechobee, Lake George, Lake Stella, Flint Creek, Buzzard Island, Cocoa Beach

Idaho (4): Brownlee Resevoir, Salmon Falls Creek Resevoir, Fernan Lake, Mormon Reservoir

Indiana (7) Kunkel Lake, Cecil M. Hardin Lake, Whitewater Lake, Hardy Lake, Brookville Lake, Worster Lake, Salamonie Lake
Iowa (3): Green Valley Beach, Lake of Three Fires Beach, Lake Darling

Kansas (16): Big Eleven Lake, Gathering Pond (Hatchery Supply Pond), Hiawatha City Lake, Hodgeman County State Fishing
Lake, Jerry Ivey Pond, Keith Sebelius Reservoir, Lake Afton, Lake Shawnee, Lebo Kids' Pond, Lovewell Reservoir, Marion County
Lake, Marion Reservoir, Rock Garden Pond in Gage Park, South Lake, Villa High Lake, Westlake in Gage Park
Louisiana (1): Lake Pontchartrain (Mandeville Beach)

Massachusetts (8): Billington Sea, Charles River below the Boston University Bridge, Chauncy Lake, Devol Pond, Long Pond
Marstons Mills, Lovells Pond, Santuit Pond, Shubael Pond
Montana (2): Hauser Reservoir; Hauser-Causeway

Mississippi (7): Long Beach, Gulfport Beach, Christian Beach, Waveland Beach, Bay St. Louis Beach, Buccaneer State Park
Beach, Lakeshore Beach

Nebraska (2): Willow Creek Reservoir, Harlan County Reservoir
New Hampshire (3^: James Pond, Elm Brook, Keyser Pond
New Jersey (3): Rosedale Lake, Swartswood Lake, Greenwood Lake

New York (36): Dryden Lake, Lake Neatahwanta, Honeoye Lake, Hemlock Lake, Greenwood Lake, Roth Pond, Maratooka
Lake, Java Lake, Wallkill Pond, Oneida Lake, Lake Champlain, Peach Lake, Wilcox Memorial Park, North Lake, Barger Pond, Lake
Casse, Hemlock Lake, Cayuga Lake, Silver Lake, Findley Lake, Meizinger Lake, Lake Mohegan, Lake Tiorati, Long Pond, Big
Reed Pond, Agawam Lake, Mill Pond (Watermill) Lake, Peekskill Lake, Ontario Prospect Park Lake, Washington Park Pond,
Roth Pond, Tully Lake, Beaver Lake, Trachtman Pond, Barger Pond, Onondaga Lake
North Carolina (4): Sweet Martha Pond, NE Cape Fear River, Chowan River, Little River
North Dakota (2): Harmon Lake, Sweetbriar Lake

Ohio (3): Grand Lake St. Marys, Maumee Bay Lake, Buckeye Lake-Crystal Beach

Oregon (6): Brownlee Reservoir, Upper Klamath Lake, Lake Billy Chinook, South Umpqua River, South Lake atTenmile Lake,
Cullaby Lake

Utah (4): Calder Reservoir, Utah Lake, Matt Warner Reservoir, McClellen Lake

Virginia (2):

Washington (8): Gibbs Lake, Lake Leland, Crocker Lake, Anderson Lake Round Lake. Rufus Woods Lake, Cottage Lake,
Vancouver Lake. Moses Lake, Lake Minterwood, Hicklin Lake

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ACTIVE BLOOMS PICTURES

Jackson Lake, Colorado on July 16, 2019 Pictures by Kyla Reinir, Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Nontoxic P/antothrix bloom, Boat ramp in Jackson Lake, Colorado.

Recently Published Articles

Characterization of Cvanophaaes in Lake Erie: Interaction Mechanisms and Structural Damage
of Toxic Cvanobacteria

Xuewen Jiang, Chanhee Ha, Seungjun Lee, Jinha Kwon, Hanna Cho, Tyler Gorham and Jiyoung Lee. Toxins
2019, 11, 444.

Economic impact of harmful algal blooms on human health: a systematic review
Christian R. C. Kouakou and Thomas G. Poder. J Water Health (2019) 17 (4): 499-516.

Mixture designs to investigate adverse effects upon co-exposure to environmental
cvanotoxins

Rubia M. Martin, Jonathan Stall rich, Michael S. Bereman. Toxicology, Volume 421, 2019, Pages 74-83.

Demonstrated transfer of cvanobacteria and cvanotoxins along a freshwater-marine
continuum in France

Myriam Bormans, Zouher Amzil, Emilien Mineaud, Luc Brient, Veronique Savar, Elise Robert, Emilie Lance.
Harmful Algae, Volume 87, 2019,101639.

A Fast Detection Strategy for Cvanobacterial blooms and associated cvanotoxins fFDSCC )
reveals the occurrence of Ivngbvatoxin A in campania (South Italy)

Germana Esposito, Roberta Teta, Raffaele Marrone, Carlo De Sterlich, Marco Casazza, Aniello Anastasio,
Massimiliano Lega, Valeria Costantino. Chemosphere, Volume 225, 2019, Pages 342-351.

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