Local News

As algae blooms returned to Utah Lake this month, with advisory warnings placed around the lake warning individuals not to enter the water, efforts continue by one local group to clean the water.  For the fifth consecutive summer, a Utah Valley University team is operating a patented floating filtration barge created to clean the water at the source of algae blooms.  The 27,000-pound, 34-foot-long and 10-foot-wide barge is operated by chemistry professor Kevin Shurtleff and a group of students from May through August, five days a week. The machine vacuums the algae from the lake, ...