Wetlands Background
The fish’s impacts on Malom Lake were too much on top of earlier
impacts. From the 1920s, landscaping and dredging to make way
for new housing developments destroyed large areas of plant life.
Waste cesspits were also dug that leached pollution into the groundwater
and lake. Nutrient pollution increased but the ecosystem
could handle it given the ability of the remaining lake plants to
absorb pollution.
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