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May 5, 2012

Blue-green algae alert lifted on Lake Texoma

Staff Report Gainesville Daily Register

Lake Texoma — Following months of monitoring, members of the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers Tulsa District have lifted the blue-green algae

advisory at Lake Texoma.

A release said samples collected by the Grayson County Health

Department on April 16, indicated that blue-green algae cell counts

have fallen below the “advisory threshold” of 20,000 cells per

milliliter of water, as established by the World Health Organization's

guidelines for recreational waters. The data was provided to the Tulsa

District by the Grayson County Health Department (GCHD).

And due to jurisdictional limitations, GCHD was unable to collect

samples at Sheppard Annex in Grayson County; Johnson Creek and the

lakeside public use area in Bryan County, Okla.; and Little Glasses

Creek in Marshall County, Okla.

But based on the factors of continued water and hydropower releases,

recent rainfall and the significant drop in cell counts at the

locations tested, the Corps of Engineers has lifted the advisory.

“The drop between March and April at Treasure Island was twenty-fold,”

said Dr. Tony Clyde, limnologist for the Tulsa District of the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers. “I would anticipate that a ten to twenty-fold

decrease has occurred in the upper reaches of the Red and Washita

River arms based upon the current release schedule, recent rainfall,

reservoir elevation and the subsidence of the bloom in Lebanon Pool

and Brier Creek.”

For more information, visit the Tulsa District website at

www.swt.usace.army.mil or the Facebook page at

www.facebook.com/usacetulsa.

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