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Blue-green algae blooms last year in Abiquiú Lake. Such blooms of cyanobacteria can cause health problems for people and animals if ingested, inhaled or touched.

Blue-green algae spotted in Abiquiú Lake wasn’t enough for federal officials to shut down water activity as they did last year, but it seemed to scare away some visitors.

“We haven’t had a whole lot of people out here today,” John Mueller, Abiquiú Dam operations project manager, said Friday. “That [algae] definitely has an effect on our visitation. It happened last year.”

Rangers saw a few small blooms in the water, only a fraction of last year’s infestation that prompted federal officials to close the lake, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman said.



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