On a bike ride Wednesday evening, I looked at Albany’s Timber Linn Lake and saw almost none of the water plant growth that has plagued Waverly Lake. Which raises a question.
A different kind of watery plant has covered almost all of Albany’s Waverly Lake with a greenish carpet of muck. But this is expected to be temporary, likely to disappear when it starts raining.
Three weeks after two harvesting machines cleared the surface of Waverly Lake of unsightly plant growth, on Wednesday the scum was back on the east end of the lake.
For the third summer in a row, a company has cleared Albany’s Waverly Lake of virtually all of its unwanted growth of water plants and algae.
Most of Albany’s Waverly Lake looked remarkably clean one evening this week, which was a surprise after several sunny days with high temperatures between 80 and 90 degrees.
Unwanted plant growth in Waverly Lake is making its annual summertime comeback, and the Albany parks department will deal with the problem as it did the last two years.
Watching the lakes and seeing them change
Like in past years, the back and forth of aquatic growth on Waverly and other Albany lakes has provided fodder for this blog over much of this summer. On a bike ride Monday I noticed yet another change.
Tags: Azolla, Mexican water fern, Swan Lakes, Waverly Lake