Lake Carmi Alum Treatment

Hi All,

If you haven't already heard the town of Franklin opened their request for qualifications for vendors to assist with the permitting, design and construction of an alum treatment at our lake.  We have high hopes that the alum will increase our water quality, as it did in Lake Morey.  Alum functions to combine with phosphorous in lakes so that the phosphorous in a treated lake will largely be unavailable to cyanobacteria (blue-green algae).  Hence, an alum treatment should diminish the large blooms of cyanobacteria in our lake, and greatly increase water quality.

If you are interested in finding out more about alum here are several articles (below) that you can read. 

• Longevity and effectiveness of aluminum in lake restoration
  
  
• The use of Alum for lake management
  
  
• This chemical turns polluted green lakes clear. Is it safe?
  

Addionally, here is a link to an alum treatment on Lake Kanasatka in New Hampshire that was successful in elimating cyanobacteria blooms.

• Alum treatment on Lake Kanasatka in New Hampshire
  
  

Respectfully,

Pete Benevento
LCCA President