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A private pond owner in Albany, Ohio set out to keep her new pond safe from harmful algal blooms without chemicals. Beneficial phytoplankton held her nutrients at zero and built a thriving fishery.

At City Park Golf Course, the City and County of Denver traded copper for a biological approach. In about two weeks, beneficial phytoplankton drove ammonia and phosphate on the effluent-fed irrigation pond to zero.

When a cyanobacteria advisory closed Lily Pond in Washington Park, Denver's Lake Management Program brought in beneficial phytoplankton. By July the nutrients that feed toxic algae were near undetectable and the advisory was lifted.

At Ravenna Country Club near Littleton, a season of beneficial phytoplankton cleared the irrigation pond of surface algae and nutrients for the first time in six years, with results confirmed by an independent laboratory.

Florida issued freshwater cyanobacteria advisories in the first week of January 2026. Months later, the same nutrient-rich lakes and canals keep blooming. Florida no longer has a summer freshwater bloom season; it has a year-round one.

Lake Mead recorded its first 2026 bloom on March 13. By mid-May a dog had died at the Virgin River and Lake Lawrence, Washington registered microcystin at 5.7 times the state safety limit. The inland West freshwater season starts early.

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How to utilize beneficial phytoplankton to inhibit eutrophication

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