Opinion?

[dicky123]

My local canal has gone like milk, dirty white and you cannot see the bottom. Each year it gets covered in thick algae style weed from May-November then it does die back with frost if we don't have rain like now.

Do you think it's a chemical reaction with the weed, dissolving on the bottom turning the water white/milky?

 

[rich66]

No idea pal, might be worth phoning the EA. They should send someone down. They did when our brook went white. I was told milk is their biggest worry as it strips the oxygen out of the water.

 

[dicky123]

Thanks rich66 oddly it happened last year too. Now it's clear again, I'm sure it's a kind of light pollution given off by the dying algae after heavy rain pushes it to the bottom.