Why is water so greenish blue???

I guess after 5 months of snow, one of the three at MTU has to start looking good.

As a B.A in English Lit and and a Juris Doctorate, and coming from a practicing attorney who has lived in the Sandusky area for many years and has conducted profound research into local history, let me chip in my two cents...
It's so you don't see the alligators.

Everyone knows alligators can't live this far north.

Crocodiles on the other hand.....

...but it doesn't hide the watersnakes! My daughter got spooked by one swimming right at us under the Mantis. Just glad there were enough fishies to keep it fed.

^I have seen them slither right up onto the portion of the queue on the bridge/pier thing. A lot of people got out cameras and started taking pictures.

Anyway, I'm not sure that the colored water is related to TTD at all. My local golf course has the same colored water in their ponds, and they don't have any equipment needing cooling around there.

Like raptorTDC mentioned, most of the ponds in my local golf courses have colored water exactly like this. It's simply a chemical they add to the water to keep vegetation from getting out of control.

Wow, a 3 page thread on the color of the water at Cedar Point. lol.

And don't worry about the water snakes. When I was little, someone told me that some of Michigan's water snakes were venoumous. But it's not true. The Massasagua (sp?) rattle snake is Michigan's only venoumous snake. Now where I am in Alabama...that's a whole different story. ;)

Chief Wahoo said:
Since the water in the lagoons is tied into the lake/bay I doubt they are allowed to "add" anything, at least in terms of treatments/chemicals. I suspect the EPA would have something to say about that.

The higher temperatures that might be caused by TTD make sense to a point. But, if that increase were THAT dramatic then I expect there would be fish kills associated as well.

I respectfully disagree... I worked on Paddlewheel in 2001 and I'm nearly sure they add something, because over time the water would fade into more of a natural brownish color, then one morning, *poof!* the water was magically blue-green again... over time it would fade... and then another morning we would show up and *poof* blue-green again.

This was before TTD so I really think it has more to do with an additive and less to do with any element of TTD.