When East Ascension High seniors make their annual pond jump in early May, their toes wiggling under the water might sense something different about the pond bottom this year — and be a little safer.

A growing rust-red layer of algal muck has spread steadily throughout the McKinley Park pond in East Sacramento. The muck, which resembles algae or another type of water bacteria, has drawn the ...

NORTON — With Chartley Pond drained five feet, it was a unique experience, to say the least, for Mark Sweeney of Norton. He was among the volunteers who turned out Saturday for the Norton Water Bodies ...

Like giant loaves of bread, 150-foot-long “geotubes” stuffed with watery muck lie baking in the sun at Center Springs Park. A contractor is dredging the six-acre pond for the first time since 1994, ...

The pond at Center Springs Park is as much as four feet deeper after a contractor cleared muck and trash that had piled up over two decades. The dredging was part of an ongoing effort to raise the ...