“We have had an offer that we countered. We got another counter offer back, and we are going to counter again later tonight,” Mayor Bob Everson said at Tuesday’s council meeting
Eric Lund, a Lake Mitchell dredging project leader, explained the blunt reality of drawing down the lake water for dredging to occur will likely cause “a fish kill off.”
“What they found is that if that wetland is in place and we take out half the sediment, then eventually with about 10 or so refills of the lake the remaining sediment would get sufficiently rinsed out if the water coming in is cleaner,” DWU biochemistry professor Paula Mazzer said of the findings from the student-led lake project.