Long, squiggly bands of green slime coated parts of the Willamette River near Portland on Monday, sending water quality regulators scrambling for answers.
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"The two agencies have determined it is not algae or related to cyanotoxins,” said DEQ spokesperson Susan Mills.

Instead, Mills said, it appears to be aquatic plants likely displaced by recent rains.

Go ninja go ninja go!

If you got stuff growing in your water, you’re in better shape than a whole lot of places… there’s plenty of freshwater bodies that can’t even grow algae.

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