SA Health has issued a warning to people to avoid contact with water from the Murray River in an area from Wellington to Goolwa and across the whole of Lake Alexandrina, due to elevated levels of blue-green algae.
SA Health has issued a warning to people to avoid contact with water from Murray River in an area from Wellington to Goolwa and across the whole of Lake Alexandrina, due to elevated levels of blue green algae.had been detected in the area and that a bloom of this species had not been seen in Lake Alexandrina before.
Samples from the adjoining Lake Albert are being tested, but Dr Cunliffe said satellite imagery suggested that area "wasn't quite as affected". However conclusive evidence from the tests was still needed. Betty Clark has warned the guests at her Milang caravan park but doesn't believe people will cancel their Easter bookings.Betty Clark, co-owner of the Milang Lakeside Caravan Park said she had warned all her guests to stay out of the water and keep their pets safe.The CEO of the Alexandrina Council Nigel Morris says there is still much to do in the region over Easter.
Dr Cuncliffe told ABC Radio Adelaide that this was the largest bloom of this type of blue green algae ever recorded in South Australia.Hundreds of waterbird deaths from avian cholera raise disease concerns for rarer birds feeding on corpses
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