Ted Peters, right, director of the Geneva Lake Environmental Agency, talks with a volunteer near a wheelbarrow filled with starry stonewort plant material uprooted from the bottom of Geneva Lake.
Connor Carynski
Diver Mike Wittlieff uses an orange bag to explain how he and others would collect, gather and dispose of starry stonewort, using the mesh bags underwater.
Connor Carynski
Volunteer kayakers wait Aug. 5 for divers to locate and begin pulling starry stonewort out of the lake so the the kayakers can bring bags of the invasive species ashore for disposal.
Connor Carynski
Wheelbarrows stand ready Aug. 5 near a boat launch in the town of Linn for kayakers to bring bags of the invasive species starry stonewort ashore during a hand-pulling removal operation.
WILLIAMS BAY – After two days of uprooting mounds of starry stonewort from Geneva Lake, officials say some areas have been mostly cleared, but others still have dense patches of the invasive species.
Ted Peters, right, director of the Geneva Lake Environmental Agency, talks with a volunteer near a wheelbarrow filled with starry stonewort plant material uprooted from the bottom of Geneva Lake.
Diver Mike Wittlieff uses an orange bag to explain how he and others would collect, gather and dispose of starry stonewort, using the mesh bags underwater.
Volunteer kayakers wait Aug. 5 for divers to locate and begin pulling starry stonewort out of the lake so the the kayakers can bring bags of the invasive species ashore for disposal.
Wheelbarrows stand ready Aug. 5 near a boat launch in the town of Linn for kayakers to bring bags of the invasive species starry stonewort ashore during a hand-pulling removal operation.
