AUBURN — 2017 was a rough year for Owasco Lake, but John Halfman has some ideas for improving its water quality and keeping harmful algal blooms from turning its beaches to pea soup. Halfman, ...

Fargoan Craig Colman suspects Minnesota lake property owners have better things to do than rake weeds out of their swimming areas. So, he invented a device that does the weed removal for them. He ...

Chautauqua Lake Association President Rudy Mueller explains to Southwestern Central School students Nick Swan, Jayden Hultin, and Nolan Froah about cleaning the shoreline. Heather Caskey, CLA employee ...

Two years ago, Bret Britz decided he’d had just about enough. Standing on the dock of his Sacheen Lake house, Britz struggled to pull in a heavy rake clogged up with a thick matte of waterlogged weeds ...

DANBURY - The small, blue mechanical "harvester" paddling gently through the empty waters of Lake Kenosia on Monday was a welcome sight for John LaRosa. As director of the Kenosia town park and a ...

As the barge slowly toured the southeast section of Chautauqua Lake, John Skogerboe periodically flung a rake attached to a line into the water and dragged up a clump of wispy weeds. Skogerboe pulled ...