Frustrated Minnesota residents are seeking urgent solutions to pollution in a local lake, which sees around 14,500 pounds of bird poop fall into it per year.
Lake Augusta, located in the city of Mendota Heights, becomes a haven for migrating cormorants each fall due to the dead trees that line the shore.
Though the birds are a native species, protected by the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, a recent report from the Lower Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization found them to be “the estimated largest contributor of phosphorus to the lake.”…