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LAKELAND, Fla. â Efforts to clean up a Polk County lake is underway after an endangered species had to be rescued.
Lake Parker in Lakeland is a nature lovers paradise, and home to a vast array of native animals, but the lake has become a dumping ground for discarded tires, plastic bottles and trash.
âPeople just don t want to get it to the garbage can or the right place, so they think a city park they can hide it. Unfortunately, they hide it, thatâs the animal s environment thatâs their home,â said Kris Porter, Director of Owl s Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife.
The December deluge of COVID-19 infections for Polk County continued with Monday’s report of 286 newly confirmed cases.
The Florida Department of Health released that figure in its Monday afternoon update, reflecting tests processed the previous day. Polk County has exceeded 200 new infections every day during December except for Christmas Day, according the state agency’s data.
Meanwhile, the positive testing rate for Polk County continues to rise. Monday’s update reported a 14.6% positive rate for tests processed on Sunday, well above the 10% threshold the Department of Health has set as necessary to limit community spread of the virus.
That followed a rate of 13.51% for the update from Sunday. Polk County has exceeded the 10% rate on all but four of the past 14 days and has surpassed 9.5% on every one.