Council candidate warns that algae threatens children's water play

"'We have families living near the water where the parents grew up playing in the water, enjoying the water all summer long, who now as parents won’t let their kids play in the water past July 4th,' Mr. Melden said.

He alluded to a report in The Blade Thursday in which local business leaders didn’t expect a big economic impact from the green slime that cover the water during the heat wave that ended this week.

'There is something else at risk, and that is our children’s childhood experience,' said Melden, who is the father of three small children."

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Council candidate warns that algae threatens children's water play