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| Monday, 17 August 2009 | |
| By MIKE BURKHOLDER Managing Editor ST. MARYS — The city of Celina and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources last week began using a new technique to test for an algal toxin in Grand Lake St. Marys — one an Ohio Environmental Protection Agency official says provides more complete results.Ohio EPA spokesperson Dina Pierce said Celina is now using the ultrasonicator to analyze water samples taken from the lake. The process is the same one used by the Florida lab the Ohio EPA previously sent samples to for analysis. The method, Pierce said, is more complete and kills the algae — a process that causes it to release all the toxin. “We think it’s a better system,” Pierce told The Evening Leader Monday…. |
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