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Like many popular coastal areas of the country, Cape Cod has water quality problems. Excess nitrogen leaching into waterways has led to eutrophication and algae blooms in many of the Cape’s surface waters, groundwater and estuaries. Some species that proliferate in nutrient-enriched waters, like bluegreen algae, are dangerous to human health (Dannhauser, 2018). Beaches are often closed during blooms of these algae species. While many species of algae do not have dangerous human health effects, they disturb terrestrial and estuarine ecosystems and create aesthetic problems, like when they wash ashore, creating decomposing, foulsmelling mats (Dannhauser, 2018). In short, algae is a threat both to the Cape’s environment, quality of life, and it’s tourist industry – and algae is directly related to excess nitrogen concentration in the water.
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