AUSTIN (KXAN) — An invasive aquatic plant that can grow up to an inch a day is spreading on lake Austin, but the city is working to fight it back.
The plant is called hydrilla and this is not the first time the City of Austin has invested time and money to get rid of it.
Dr. Brent Bellinger with City of Austin Watershed Protection says the first documentation of the invasive plant was in 1999. During the early 2000s, they began mitigation…