{"id":27741,"date":"2017-11-30T11:20:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/?p=27741"},"modified":"2022-08-04T12:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:27:10","slug":"lake-erie-hab-monitoring-network-matures-protect-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/lake-erie-hab-monitoring-network-matures-protect-drinking-water.htm","title":{"rendered":"Lake Erie HAB Monitoring Network Matures to Protect Drinking Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When toxic algae in western Lake Erie cut off 500,000 Toledo residents from their tap water in 2014, an effort to cobble together <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/lake-erie-algal-bloom-monitoring-network-shaping-up-after-toledo-water-crisis.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an algae-monitoring sensor network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sprang up in the bloom\u2019s slimy green wake. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This September, as another bloom spread across the western basin, the coalition of water quality interests behind the project <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ioos.noaa.gov\/news\/ott_fy17\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">secured more than $2 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in backing to bolster it with the best available toxin-monitoring technology, refine the way it distributes data to the people who need it, and ensure it stays funded well into the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re really building a sustainable funding model, unifying the network and solidifying it as a permanent observatory,\u201d said Ed Verhamme, engineer with LimnoTech, one of the partners on the project. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The network grew from a plan to install sondes measuring algae pigments and other dimensions of water quality near the intake pipes of drinking water treatment plants along the lake\u2019s southwestern and central shore. What started as a goal of getting seven plants on board the first year has grown to 12 plants sharing real-time sensor data today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt helps them know the treatment that they are using is effective,\u201d Verhamme said.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd if it\u2019s effective today and the data shows the bloom is going down, they know it will be effective tomorrow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the Toledo crisis, several universities and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory have launched buoys with similar capabilities across the basin to track conditions offshore. The Great Lakes Observing System, which won the new funding from a grant from its parent organization, made real-time data from most of those sensors publically available in a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/habs.glos.us\/map\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">centralized online data portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27745\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27745\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HAB_portal-1024x562.png\" alt=\"GLOS\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A growing library of real-time data and other resources are available on the GLOS HAB portal.(Credit: Great Lakes Observing System)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBetween buoys and sondes, it\u2019s around five and a half million data points that are being generated per year,\u201d Verhamme said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The improved network will provide water treatment plants early warnings for an algae problem that, despite national attention, isn\u2019t getting any better. Though Ohio drinking water hasn\u2019t been compromised since 2014, some residents are still skeptical of what\u2019s coming out of their taps. The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news-release\/below-average-harmful-algal-bloom-predicted-for-western-lake-erie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017 bloom<\/a> was among the most severe since 2000<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in terms of the sheer amount of blue-green algae growing in Lake Erie, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The 2015 bloom was the most severe since 2000 by the same metric.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But this year\u2019s bloom was less toxic. The disparity between algae biomass and toxin concentrations has posed a challenge for remote, sensor-based measurements of the blooms, according to Timothy Davis, associate professor of biological sciences at Bowling Green University. To help fill that gap, the NOAA Great Lakes lab <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/espniagara-tracks-algal-toxins-lake-erie-protects-drinking-water.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brought in an Environmental Sample Processor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a cutting-edge moored instrument capable of remotely measuring algae toxin concentrations in the lake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Treatment plants routinely test for toxins in their labs, but they\u2019re testing water that has already arrived at the plant. That could put them a step behind when it comes to adjusting treatment to remove the toxins. Offshore toxin measurements have previously depended on sampling cruises that rarely happen more than once a week. Pigment sensors are a good indicator of algae\u2019s presence, but not necessarily toxicity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYou can have pigment concentrations shift over the course of the bloom and yet your toxin concentrations will not,\u201d Davis said. \u201cInstead of proxies, which can underestimate or overestimate risk, we\u2019re measuring concentrations of the toxin itself, which is always ideal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Davis was part of the team that brought the instrument to Lake Erie in 2015, making it the first ESP to operate in freshwater. He and colleagues at GLERL have spent the past two bloom seasons testing the instrument in the lake, fine-tuning the automated processes that extract and measure the toxins.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27746\" style=\"width: 693px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27746\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HAB_sonde.png\" alt=\"GLOS\" width=\"683\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HAB_sonde.png 683w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HAB_sonde-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/news.fondriest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HAB_sonde-600x377.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonde measurements of phycocyanin have tracked well with microcystin concentrations at the Toledo water intake. (Credit: Ed Verhamme\/LimnoTech)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new grant will bring an additional ESP to the lake, with more funding from the federal Great Lakes Restoration Initiative covering a third. The ESP can\u2019t house enough raw materials to perform daily toxin tests for the entire bloom season, so three instruments will cover two locations in bloom-prone Maumee Bay while one undergoes maintenance and a restock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ESPs will be moored where they can intercept toxin-laden water moving toward major intakes. Paired with all the other water quality data being collected around the lake, treatment plant operators and water quality researchers will have an unprecedented characterization of the lake\u2019s bloom ecology and dynamics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe can utilize all that data, put it together, and get fine-scale resolution on toxin concentrations, pigment concentrations and dissolved oxygen, which is something we\u2019ve never been able to do before,\u201d Davis said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much of that data will likely be available on the HABs Data Portal operated by the Great Lakes Observing System. GLOS built the tool to meet the immediate need borne from the Toledo crisis to host all of the new monitoring data in an easily accessible, central location. They were committed to updating and maintaining the portal, but the circumstances weren\u2019t ideal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe HABs portal we developed at GLOS was not necessarily something that we planned to do or that we had a budget dedicated for,\u201d said GLOS Executive Director Kelli Paige. \u201cWe were working off the side of our desk a bit and trying to be responsive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the new grant will help GLOS run and improve the portal for the three-year funding period. It also supports work with the Cleveland Water Alliance to engage financial stakeholders to develop a long-term funding model, Paige said. They\u2019ll also be reaching out to users like plant operators to make sure they\u2019re getting the data they need delivered in a way that works for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are also plans to expand the portal beyond the data coming in from the growing number of sensors in Lake Erie. That could include, for example, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glerl.noaa.gov\/res\/HABs_and_Hypoxia\/bulletin.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">biweekly NOAA HAB Bulletin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that describes bloom conditions and forecasts how it might change based on modeled water currents and other factors. There are plenty more projects related to algae blooms and Lake Erie water quality, and more researchers are coming to GLOS to look into how all the data products out there can be collated with contextual data in an updated interface of the HABs portal, Paige said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s validating to see that everyone is naturally coming together around this idea that we should be making the data available \u2014 that is a paradigm shift; that it should be somewhere convenient where everyone can find it; and that GLOS is the place for that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new grant, an ad-hoc monitoring network that sprang up after the Toledo water crisis is maturing into the premier Lake Erie observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32,8,1],"tags":[493,60,215,181,346,109,74],"class_list":["post-27741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-articles","category-lakes-reservoirs","category-newsfeed","category-uncategorized","tag-esp","tag-featured","tag-glos","tag-lake-erie","tag-lakes-reservoirs","tag-news-ticker","tag-noaa"],"remote_post_permalink":false,"remote_post_featured_image":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lake Erie HAB Monitoring Network Matures to Protect Drinking Water<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With a new grant, an ad-hoc monitoring network that sprang up after the Toledo water crisis is maturing into the premier Lake Erie observatory.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/lake-erie-hab-monitoring-network-matures-protect-drinking-water.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lake Erie HAB Monitoring Network Matures to Protect Drinking Water\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With a new grant, an ad-hoc monitoring network that sprang up after the Toledo water crisis is maturing into the premier Lake Erie observatory.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/lake-erie-hab-monitoring-network-matures-protect-drinking-water.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Environmental Monitor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-11-30T15:20:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-04T16:27:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.fondriest.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/HAB_esp.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"3264\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2448\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeff Gillies\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Gillies\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/lake-erie-hab-monitoring-network-matures-protect-drinking-water.htm#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/lake-erie-hab-monitoring-network-matures-protect-drinking-water.htm\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeff Gillies\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/cb62bff91dfcaebff8f6db40bffc5531\"},\"headline\":\"Lake Erie HAB Monitoring Network Matures to Protect Drinking Water\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-11-30T15:20:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-04T16:27:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/lake-erie-hab-monitoring-network-matures-protect-drinking-water.htm\"},\"wordCount\":1138,\"commentCount\":1,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.fondriest.com\\\/news\\\/lake-erie-hab-monitoring-network-matures-protect-drinking-water.htm#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/news.fondriest.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/HAB_esp-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"ESP\",\"featured\",\"GLOS\",\"Lake Erie\",\"Lakes &amp; 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