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A barge returns to shore to get more aluminum sulfate Thursday on Togus Pond in Augusta. Worromontogus Lake Association's Togus Pond Restoration Project has raised funds to give Togus Pond a second dose of aluminum sulfate. The organization raised $400,000 and along with a $200,000 state grant paid for a repeat of a similar treatment in April 2024. SOLitude Lake Management is back to do the second treatment which it says is scientifically designed to help restore the lake's natural chemical balance and prevent algae blooms. The treatment was recommended as a solution to inactivate phosphorus already in the water and at the bottom of the lake. Algae blooms often turn the lake green, unattractive and unhealthy in August and September. The blooms also degrade water quality. Togus Pond, ringed by many camps and homes, is on the Maine Impaired Lakes Priority List and lake association leaders hope the treatment, and other steps taken in recent years, will help change that. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)A barge spreads aluminum sulfate under the water Thursday on Togus Pond in Augusta. Worromontogus Lake Association’s Togus Pond Restoration Project has raised funds to give Togus Pond a second dose of aluminum sulfate. The organization raised 0,000 and along with a 0,000 state grant paid for a repeat of a similar treatment in April 2024. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)
Purchase this imageA barge returns to shore to get more aluminum sulfate Thursday on Togus Pond in Augusta. SOLitude Lake Management is back to do the second treatment which it says is scientifically designed to help restore the lake’s natural chemical balance and prevent algae blooms. The treatment was recommended as a solution to inactivate phosphorus already in the water and at the bottom of the lake. Algae blooms often turn the lake green, unattractive and unhealthy in August and September. The blooms also degrade water quality. Togus Pond, ringed by many camps and homes, is on the Maine Impaired Lakes Priority List and lake association leaders hope the treatment, and other steps taken in recent years, will help change that. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)
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Joe Phelan is an award winning journalist who makes photos and videos around the capital area for the the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and the other Masthead Maine publications. Joe’s first journalism...
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