Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Lake Erie has a lake retention time of 2.6 years, [24] the shortest of all the Great Lakes. [25] The lake's surface area is 9,910 square miles (25,667 km 2). [7] [26] Lake Erie's water level fluctuates with the seasons as in the other Great Lakes. Generally, the lowest levels are in January and February and the highest in June or July, although ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Lake Erie Basin consists of Lake Erie and surrounding watersheds, which are typically named after the river, creek, or stream that provides drainage into the lake. The watersheds are located in the states of Indiana , Michigan , New York , Ohio , and Pennsylvania in the United States , and in the province of Ontario in Canada .
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) bloom on Lake Erie (United States) in 2009. These kinds of algae can cause harmful algal bloom. A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, water deoxygenation, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Between late summer and spring, the water temperature ranges from 9.9 °C (49.8 °F) to 24.5 °C (76.1 °F). [6] In a list of 22 tributaries of Lake Erie compiled in a Strategic Action Plan, Fourmile Creek was ranked as the fourth-lowest in water quality. There are few cases of nonpoint source pollution in the upper reaches of the creek. [2]