Adirondack Explorer

Speed up water protections

A quatic invasive species don’t stop moving from water body to water body while government officials debate whether to do more to prevent their spread than simply require that boat owners take “reasonable precautions” to keep them off their vessels.

Likewise, the dangers of road salt, studied first in 1990 and again in 2010, don’t change when we wait another 10 years to take action.

And as the climate continues to warm, phosphorus in Lake Champlain is creating harmful cyanobacteria blooms and will continue

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