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Originally Posted by ishoot308
APS;
This is definitely Blackey Cove. If you do a Google Earth search you can clearly see the similarities...
Dan
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Thanks. I used a "
Google Lens" search to find similarly-affected lakes.
What appeared were distressed lakes in the
northern tier of US states. (Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, NH, Maine). States
south of us didn't appear overly affected.
I haven't searched Canadian lakes yet.
Which brings me to my Florida county's approach: Because of tourism decline due to disappointing fishing catches, my County's Board got a grant to replace ALL septic systems with "E-1 pumps". Local ocean waters were to be cleansed of poor--or absent--methods. Costs were added to our water bill--
effectively doubling them! 
Anchored visitors in this County are already required to maintain a log of pump-outs for weekly Marine Patrol inspections or pay fines.
Five years later, now that 99% of waste facilities are "fixed", I asked an activist neighbor (a fishing guide to Gulf- and Atlantic-ocean waters) how things had "progressed".
Disappointed, he said the problem was not our local waters, but the Mississippi River watershed!
(Whose source is the
northern tier of US states)...
