Never-ending battle: Scum on Waverly Lake

Three weeks after two harvesting machines cleared the surface of Waverly Lake of unsightly plant growth, on Wednesday the scum was back on the east end of the lake.

A bike ride took me past the lake on the Salem Avenue side Wednesday afternoon. The end nearest the floating dock and boat ramp looked pretty green.

This was after a company hired by the Albany Parks Department spent several days scouring the lake with its aquatic harvesters at the beginning of August…

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