Chemical Flush Could Restore Hundreds of Finnish Lakes

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Chemical Flush Could Restore Hundreds of Finnish Lakes

Finland is known as the land of a thousand lakes, but a good number of them suffer from green algal blooms that gobble up oxygen in the water as they die and decompose. The result is an oxygen-starved body of water that cannot support complex plant life or fish, which eventually die.

However the Finnish environmental watchdog SYKE recently managed to salvage one affected lake in southwest Finland by using a chemical clean-up method.