Backyard ponds and lakes can make your property feel like a peaceful retreat, but nothing ruins the relaxation faster than filmy water and smelly muck. Fortunately, there’s an easy and natural way to ...

The Indian River Lagoon (IRL), one of Florida’s most biologically diverse estuaries, continues to face a serious environmental threat: muck. This fine-grained, organic-rich sediment looks like black ...

Florida is home to one of North America's most biologically diverse estuaries, the Indian River Lagoon, and it's not doing well. It's choked with decomposing lawn clippings, leaves, sediment, ...

Agencies agree to speed the permit process so residents can remove muck while lake levels are low. County officials have negotiated a way for residents to remove the muck from lakes without jumping ...

A new report from a scientific research arm of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers looks at the chronic, growing problem of a kind of blue-green algae accumulating on shorelines of Lake St. Clair. The ...

It's nearly impossible to operate heavy machinery in standing water and the permits won't allow it. The onset of seasonal rains may prevent the county from completing all the much-awaited muck ...