Tempe Town Lake will remain closed a while longer due to water quality issues stemming from record water flows coming from two different river systems, as well as the Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt.
Salt River Project (SRP) said the flood is the biggest on the Salt and Verde rivers since 1993, before Tempe Town Lake was built. Recent inflows are the highest on record on the Salt and Verde watershed, about eight times greater than average. The water has downed full-sized trees, sent abandoned boats over the dam, and eroded several feet of sand from Town Lake’s Boat Beach.
This level of flooding also brings with it water quality issues, including E. coli. Town Lake will be closed to boating as well as fishing until further notice…