When East Ascension High seniors make their annual pond jump in early May, their toes wiggling under the water might sense something different about the pond bottom this year — and be a little safer.

LAKE FOREST – Carol Toney, who has lived less than a mile from Village Pond Park for 20 years, enjoys spending time with her 2-year-old granddaughter in the neighborhood surrounding her Cavanaugh Road ...

A growing rust-red layer of algal muck has spread steadily throughout the McKinley Park pond in East Sacramento. The muck, which resembles algae or another type of water bacteria, has drawn the ...

BARTOW | Years of sediment layering the bottoms of six retention ponds around Bartow could cause problems for the city's stormwater system, so city officials say they hope to fix the problem before ...

Akela was neck-deep in mucky water and desperate for a helping hand. A neighbor in the area of Brass Castle and Jonestown roads called Washington Township, Warren County, police Wednesday when they ...

Like giant loaves of bread, 150-foot-long “geotubes” stuffed with watery muck lie baking in the sun at Center Springs Park. A contractor is dredging the six-acre pond for the first time since 1994, ...

DELEON SPRINGS — One of the man-made ponds at Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge is overdue for a spring cleaning. About 40 years overdue, to be exact. Later this month, refuge officials plan to ...

BARTOW | More than 3,000 tons of muck later, dredging crews finally have reached the bottom of Hack Lake in Bartow. "We have gotten down to a really nice clay bottom," said Rebecca Baker, manager of ...