ALGAE IN LAKE HAVASU

[EB3]

Anyone experiencing getting sick ( ie vomiting, stomach cramps, diarrhea,) or other virus symptoms during or after a Havasu trip?

 

[DWC]

Only after I end up drinking bud lights because I'm out of bullets.

 

[Meaney77]

Yes but its usually due to a rough weekend of drinking:drink

 

[spectra3279]

Yes but its usually due to a rough weekend of drinking:drink

Did they reopen China buffet?

 

[MrMayhem]

Only after I end up drinking bud lights because I'm out of bullets.

This!

But the algae was looking pretty bad a couple weeks ago. California side, south of the landing seemed to be the worst.

 

[TCHB]

No problem here.

 

[RiverDave]

My wife was complaining that she thought she got food poisoning over the weekend.. never occurred to me it could have been the water?

Nobody else got sick though?

 

[Icky]

Girlfriends dad got sick after we left on the 4th, he's just now getting better and they still haven't narrowed it down what it was. This was Parker though

 

[grumpy88]

I know a guy who got sick who stays in parker . I figured it was because he does not drink ! This was over 4th of July. He couldn't even drive home

 

[2Driver]

Id stay out of it and especially still water, extra warm coves.

Algae is feeding off something in the water and its "the something" in the water you want to stay away from.

We snorkeled a lot over the 4th, but that was Parker and everyone knows that water has been cleaned by the miracle turbines at the Dam.

 

[Icky]

I know a guy who got sick who stays in parker . I figured it was because he does not drink ! This was over 4th of July. He couldn't even drive home

Same thing happened to her dad, they figured it was the flu. Our friends were staying till Friday so we left the toy hauler with her parents. We left Tuesday, he got sick Thursday, He was in bed till Saturday, drove home sicker then shit, towing. I was going to go out there and pick them up that night but they made it home before I got off work. I still don't think they got the results back from the tests.

Long story short I can't thank the people at the blue water RV park enough for all their help.

 

[Tank]

You stand or swim in stagnant water (i.e. the channel) you're bound to get ill.

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

It's a small amoeba like bug that swims ups your butthole and attaches to your colon. , makes you sick for days until it dies.

 

[RiverDave]

It's a small amoeba like bug that swims ups your butthole and attaches to your colon. , makes you sick for days until it dies.

Seriously??

 

[Joker]

Swimming in Havasew is like swimming in the pool at Topock. Nobody leaves without a virus.:thumbsup

 

[Bobby V]

Seriously??

:yikes


http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...uthia-Koral-Reef-Cybil-Meister-298676471.html

 

[OldSchoolBoats]

Just spent 4 days on the lake. All good here.

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

Seriously??

No, but it made for good reading

 

[ClownRoyal]

Swimming in Havasew is like swimming in the pool at Topock. Nobody leaves without a virus.:thumbsup

That is why I get the Fock out of that cesspool for the Summer and go North.

 

[Tommy Gun Images]

I swim and paddle board every day in thompson bay and I'm fine.

 

[Jefftowz]

Just got back from a long weekend in Havasu and we are all good!

 

[JB in so cal]

So to focus...is there algae? Is it mostly on california side? Coves getting it, too?

Middle of lake no algae?

 

[SJP]

Do not worry about swimming in it. The weeds and floating patches reek havoc to your boats. I spun two impellers and really jacked up my pontoon. :thumbsdown

 

[teded]

Just don't drink the water in the channel, you should be ok.

 

[milkmoney]

I swim and paddle board every day in thompson bay and I'm fine.

Don't u jus suck [emoji6] [emoji202]

 

[warlock250]

I figure if you drink enough beer you should be fine.

 

[Big B Hova]

Don't drink the lake water.... problem solved!

 

[C-2]

There was several advisories this past weekend in SoCal for the blue-green algae bloom...

http://www.pe.com/2017/07/15/toxic-...verwood-lake-in-the-san-bernardino-mountains/

 

[buck35]

With all the people there , isn't the water yur in , mostly urin?:yikes

 

[Tommy Gun Images]

With all the people there , isn't the water yur in , mostly urin?:yikes

It kills off the algae

 

[WildWilly]

maybe the issue is with people that rarely go don't have Havasu immunity built up...lol

 

[rvrrun]

Just don't drink the water in the channel, you should be ok.

Is there water in the channel? I thought it was a urine estuary.

 

[2Driver]

LOL

The Zebra mussles only eat the clear Algae

The new sewer system will make the lake cleaner.

 

[jones performance]

theres a flu or something going around that kicks your ass for about 2 weeks.

 

[Wicky]

There was several advisories this past weekend in SoCal for the blue-green algae bloom...

http://www.pe.com/2017/07/15/toxic-...verwood-lake-in-the-san-bernardino-mountains/

They can easily fix this by blue stoning but, it is more important to house, feed, and cloth the illegals, as there is no money for blue stoning and the envirowackos don't like it either.

 

[C-2]

They blue stone them, not sure why the algae persists; Castaic was treated in April. But, it has been a blast furnace here in SoCal since about that time, so maybe the warm water is too much.

 

[MrMayhem]

What is Blue stoning?

 

[C-2]

What is Blue stoning?

They dump Copper Sulfate into the water and it kills the algae. It's pretty neat after they do it, you can see as far down as the light spectrum allows; usually about 30' or so.

I too did not know the they called it "Blue Stoning," I just knew it as Copper Sulfate.

Years ago they did it at Elsinore for a few seasons and you could see the bottom.

I don't think they do it at Havi, Mohave, or Mead, just the inland lakes.

 

[FreeBird236]

What is Blue stoning?

It's using copper sulfate for algae control, but I think there's a limit to the size of lake you can use it in, don't think it would be very effective in a river.

 

[MrMayhem]

They dump Copper Sulfate into the water and it kills the algae. It's pretty neat after they do it, you can see as far down as the light spectrum allows; usually about 30' or so.

I too did not know the they called it "Blue Stoning," I just knew it as Copper Sulfate.

Years ago they did it at Elsinore for a few seasons and you could see the bottom.

I don't think they do it at Havi, Mohave, or Mead, just the inland lakes.

Thanks for the update.
Someone needs to do something. I was parked on the Cali side a couple weeks ago, and noticed it was everywhere from the landing to almost the chalk cliffs.

 

[Ziggy]

Thanks for the update.
Someone needs to do something. I was parked on the Cali side a couple weeks ago, and noticed it was everywhere from the landing to almost the chalk cliffs.

Two weeks ago the stuff was all over, even in the middle of the lake. Haven't seen any this week.
They have been mowing the prickly grass in channel, saw them in marina yesterday. Dumping it in the far right ramp and hauling it off. Took me 10 minutes to pick all the grass off my trailer and boat last night.[emoji34]

 

[MrMayhem]

Glad to see the city doing something. The city without a healthy lake, would die.

 

[FreeBird236]

Thanks for the update.
Someone needs to do something. I was parked on the Cali side a couple weeks ago, and noticed it was everywhere from the landing to almost the chalk cliffs.

The algae bloom has seemed to be worse in recent years. Some are saying nitrates from fertilizer coming in upstream are causing it, others say the the guagga has something to do with it. The warming of the water makes it worse and copper sulfate in a flowing river is not really an option. This is why we spend most all our time in the gorge.

 

[RiverDave]

The algae bloom has seemed to be worse in recent years. Some are saying nitrates from fertilizer coming in upstream are causing it, others say the the guagga has something to do with it. The warming of the water makes it worse and copper sulfate in a flowing river is not really an option. This is why we spend most all our time in the gorge.

Quaggas eat algae. They are basically a giant water filtration system.. not sure why they would be causing anything?

 

[Ziggy]

Quaggas eat algae. They are basically a giant water filtration system.. not sure why they would be causing anything?

They clear the water, more sunlight reaches deeper causing more growth .

 

[2Driver]

Quaggas eat algae. They are basically a giant water filtration system.. not sure why they would be causing anything?

Dave one of the lame reports ASU or AZGF attempted to feed the public last year was that the quagga only ate the clear algae. :lmao

You think of the river as flowing, but in reality the lake accumulates nitrates and phosphates. Phosphates once trapped by spetics and ground filtration to a point, now pass right through public sewers systems that dump so called treated water to the lake off the island. Its a growing accumulative effect. Lets just say the river is changing. The large population growths of Veags, Bullhead, Laughlin and Havasu in the past 3 decades have caught up with the river's abilty to cleanse its self.

 

[RogerThat99]

There was several advisories this past weekend in SoCal for the blue-green algae bloom...

http://www.pe.com/2017/07/15/toxic-...verwood-lake-in-the-san-bernardino-mountains/

I never heard of that toxic blue green algae until a couple years ago. Now I hear about it everywhere. It is in the Delta some places. I wonder why all of the sudden it seems everywhere? Hmmmm...

 

[RogerThat99]

They dump Copper Sulfate into the water and it kills the algae. It's pretty neat after they do it, you can see as far down as the light spectrum allows; usually about 30' or so.

I too did not know the they called it "Blue Stoning," I just knew it as Copper Sulfate.

Years ago they did it at Elsinore for a few seasons and you could see the bottom.

I don't think they do it at Havi, Mohave, or Mead, just the inland lakes.

They call it "Blue Stoning" because there is a product you can buy to treat your ponds at home called Blue Stone. We used it in our pond when I was a kid. It looked like blue Pop Rocks. When I saw it for the first time, I thought my Mom had bought me a Quaker Oatmeal sized canister of blue Pop Rocks. I was at the hospital about 30 minutes later....

 

[stephenkatsea]

They clear the water, more sunlight reaches deeper causing more growth .

Exactly

 

[C-2]

They call it "Blue Stoning" because there is a product you can buy to treat your ponds at home called Blue Stone. We used it in our pond when I was a kid. It looked like blue Pop Rocks. When I saw it for the first time, I thought my Mom had bought me a Quaker Oatmeal sized canister of blue Pop Rocks. I was at the hospital about 30 minutes later....

Thanks, I wondered where the name came from.

So did they taste like pop rocks? D