First of all a big thank you to Lady Fisher for the wonderful article! Thank you!

In the article there was mention of the burning waters of Lake Erie. I don't know about the lake proper but I do remember when the Cuyahoga River, an Ohio tributary to lake Erie, had so much hypergolic pollution in it that it spontaneously ignited and burned. If you do a google search on the spontaneous ignition of the Cuyahoga River you will find some interesting reading. It will also help you to understand the good progress we have made in cleaning up the Great Lakes and their tributaries. We have a long way to go for the Great Lakes fisheries but thanks to the efforts of Canadian and American fishers, hunters and governments the Great Lakes are no longer the polluted, dead waters they once were.