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Old Posted Mar 18, 2018, 6:36 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeMusashi View Post
The biggest pests in Milwaukee are odors from Lake Michigan.

Milwaukee sometimes smells terrible in certain parts of the city due to natural rotting Cladophora algae. Other times it is dead alewive fish washing up on shore. And other times it’s wind blowing odors from a sewage plant that is used to create Milorganite fertilizer off the lake into some neighborhoods of the city.
you can probably thank the lovely zebra (and quagga) mussels for your algae problem. thats constantly on the mind of biologists out west.
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