The DEC is launching a new research program to address harmful algal blooms in New York waters.<\/p>\n
The new $2.5 million investment will support research on the subject, with the goal being to study them and find ways to cut down on how often they happen.<\/p>\n
This comes just days after Cayuga Lake saw its first algal bloom of the season, the earliest on record.<\/p>\n
DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton called the program “a brand new next step in order to make resources available to that we have the best understanding and the best research available, [so] New York can continue to be on the cutting edge of addressing this really important issue so that we can keep water bodies like Skaneateles [Lake] clean.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DEC is launching a new research program to address harmful algal blooms in New York waters. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22996,257,3242,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,380],"class_list":["post-223635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-environment","tag-central-ny","tag-environment","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}