Spring Break
Abstract:
Returning students may have noticed some changes on campus, especially those at Mirror Lake including removing pollutants and unwanted plant life.
According to UConn spokesman Richard Veilleux, Mirror Lake had become murky from algae and invasive plant life, so over the summer UConn had the lake's surface vacuumed to remove detritus, like the polluting droppings of the ever-present Canadian geese....
Pierson Lakeworthy
posted 8/29/08 @ 9:50 AM EST
First of all the area around and in Swan Lake was destroyed. There used to be some incredible areas around that body of water where one could go and have a small sense of being somewhere else. This is all gone destroyed for another two decades that it will take to bring back the natural beauty that was there. I agree the invasive reeds needed to be removed but not just hacked off. The cattails also were hacked off which are not invasive but do need a certain measure of control to keep them from taking over but not just hacked off! Cattails filter out the water. Does anyone realize how many natural habitats were detroyed by the supposed Swan lake improvement. This has all the appearnce of some anal retentive individual that would like to see the world decorated with nice red bricks and cement sidewalks with clean open views of cars running by on smoothe amosite roads that are free from weeds growing up from the curbs or between the roads edge and the sidewalk. The view of the Chemistry building is not what well landscaped areas are about. It should be about places of refuge where a break from the brick, stone, glass and steel can be achieved.
Mirror lake needs to be dredged. Vacumming does nothing. Why not just dig up the island and replace it with a concrete statue of the president!