(04-17-2016, 03:56 PM)Drake Wrote: What has happened to Silver lake?
To clarify, the water level is not low - it stays at the same level all the time because it is man made and there is a dam at the end. What makes it seem really low is that a lot of sediment has been accumulating increasingly for the past few years. The geese and duck population don't help with this, and the fact that people feed them there has devastating consequences for the ecosystem. By feeding the birds, they literally stay there all year, and reproduce there too.
There are plans to completely dredge out the sediment from Silver Lake in the next 2 years and implement a natural restoration initiative, similar to what was done to Victoria Park Lake a few years ago.