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Harmful Algae Bloom in Otsego Lake

Paul Lord, environmental scientist at the Biological Field Station in Cooperstown

Funding is always a challenge with Otsego Lake no matter what the problem or opportunity may be.

“The new problem is actually an old problem. It’s the algae bloom and the quagga mussels that we predicted back in 2018 that are still here, but they are causing greater problems,” said Paul Lord, environmental scientist at the Biological Field Station in Cooperstown.

“I told the board of directors of Otsego Lake Association that we were going to have a problem, and this was the summer for that problem. In October when we were doing our deepest check in the lake, we were finding 8 or 9 quagga mussels per square meter at about 160 feet down,” Mr. Lord said.

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