polluted lake – ClarkCountyToday.com https://www.clarkcountytoday.com Your News Source with Integrity Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:47:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cropped-Andis-CCT-Icon-NEW-170522-01-1-36x36.jpg polluted lake – ClarkCountyToday.com https://www.clarkcountytoday.com 32 32 Lacamas Shores biofilter polluting Lacamas Lake https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/news/lacamas-shores-biofilter-polluting-lacamas-lake/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lacamas-shores-biofilter-polluting-lacamas-lake Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:50:08 +0000 https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/?p=93773 The left photo shows the original, functioning stormwater biofilter at the Lacamas Shores development in 1992. Due to a lack of maintenance, today it has become an overgrown mix of trees and weeds and brush. Uncontained waterflow has carved mini streams for water to run in heavy rains. The biofilter now adds phosphorus and other elements rather than cleaning the water. Graphic Lacamasshoresbiofilter.org

Failed biofilter at Lacamas Lake adds phosphorus to stormwater rather than cleaning it.]]>