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  1. We need your help keeping an eye out for #algae blooms in the Bay 🦠

    As the weather heats up, conditions will be ripe for harmful algae blooms (HABs). After a devastating #HAB in 2022, we ramped up our algae monitoring program and now have a team algae sampling across the Bay Area through the summer.

    But we could always use more eyes on the Bay 👀 If you see coffee-colored water or unusually red or bright green water in the Bay, take photos, note down the time & exact location, and reach out to our pollution tip line: baykeeper.org/report-pollution

    Photos: First two photos are of brown-colored water during a small algae bloom in #Alameda in 2024 that luckily dissipated quickly. The third photo is a close-up image of the alga Akashiwo sanguinea 🔬 and the last image is of our team collecting samples from the Bay #algaebloom #harmfulalgaeblooms #sanfraniscobay #bayarea #sfbay #waterpollution

  2. Late last week, our community science monitoring program detected a harmful #algae bloom in #Alameda 🦠

    ⚠️ If you see signs of a bloom—including tea-like or otherwise discolored water—please avoid contact with the affected area and reach out to our pollution hotline:

    baykeeper.org/update/harmful-a

    #harmfulalgaebloom #HAB #sfbay #sanfraniscobay #bayarea #pollution #waterpollution

  3. We're urging people to stay out of #SFBay for another couple of days following sewage spills caused by the storms: "The bacteria and pathogens and viruses and chemicals haven't really had a chance to flush out of the bay yet," Baykeeper Director Sejal Choksi-Chugh said to @[email protected] abc7news.com/san-francisco-bay
    #bayarea #sanfraniscobay #sewage #pollution #rain