Shorty, If I may add an observation to the algal situation, we are seeing an abnormal "bloom" of sorts I haven't seen in many years in northern and western KS. I had no FA to speak of this summer-until the cold snap hit the first part of sept... 104 one day, down to 30 by sundown the next night and it stayed below 35 for more than 2 days.
Several of our biologists felt the waters cooled so fast it turned over very quickly in a fashion a huge nutrient load was released into the perfect water temp to form the perfect storm, so to speak. Temps after have been 80's into the 90's, yet water temps went from 80's to upper 40's but have never made it back to much more than mid 60's.
We had several ponds that it even killed the CC and a few carp. The worst was a new pond with no aquatic vegetation and DO read .008ppm 3 days after the cold snap. It took 48hrs of massive efforts to get it back up to 4ppm and 10 days later we finally had 8ppm top to bottom and 120%+ saturation levels. This particular pond has cycled 3-4 times since then but never has came out of it. Still green as green gets and it had 36-40" vis before the cold-all through summer.
I can't say the GSH have affected anything as far as the algal situation because my pond has GSH-many-and is also green as green can be and I also have some Tilapia yet that made it through the cold snap.
Don't know what to say other than I think this is a bad year to make assumptions just yet, IMO.
