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Ian Cloke
Guest
Thousands of fish have died because of a lack of oxygen, in an environmental disaster at Llandrindod Wells? premiere tourist spot.
Residents and visitors were distressed to see dead fish floating on the water at Llandrindod Wells lakeside, with many others coming to the surface gasping for breath, after blooms of blue-green algae starved the water of its oxygen.
A desperate bid to save the remaining fish has been underway all week. Council workers have been taking the dead fish to a landfill site, while pumps have been operating 24 hours a day to help re-oxygenate the lake.
The council warned the public not to fish, swim or allow their pets near the lake two weeks ago when the toxic blue-green algae started multiplying dramatically due to the heatwave.
But Llandrindod Wells county councillor Keith Tampin and the chairman of the Lakeside Angling Club, Bernard Johns, claim the council?s actions to tackle the problem were too little to late.
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Residents and visitors were distressed to see dead fish floating on the water at Llandrindod Wells lakeside, with many others coming to the surface gasping for breath, after blooms of blue-green algae starved the water of its oxygen.
A desperate bid to save the remaining fish has been underway all week. Council workers have been taking the dead fish to a landfill site, while pumps have been operating 24 hours a day to help re-oxygenate the lake.
The council warned the public not to fish, swim or allow their pets near the lake two weeks ago when the toxic blue-green algae started multiplying dramatically due to the heatwave.
But Llandrindod Wells county councillor Keith Tampin and the chairman of the Lakeside Angling Club, Bernard Johns, claim the council?s actions to tackle the problem were too little to late.
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