What would it take to make Lake Merritt swimmable | Bay Curious, KQED News
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- Опубликовано: 17 мар 2016
- Today, Lake Merritt is known as the Crown Jewel of Oakland, but it used to be called by a different name: the Lake of 1,000 Smells. To figure how to make it a swimming lake, it’d be good to know how it became un-swimmable in the first place.
Reporter: Jessica Placzek
Video: Adam Grossberg
Read more: www.kqed.org/news/10900605
why haven't more people seen this?!
Why is this just coming in my newsfeeds ... 3 years later
*stuff like this is ignored because the city is run by democrats*
@@getchasome6230 So you believe that republicans are MORE likely to take on a costly beautification project like cleaning the lake. Feel free to hate on whatever political party you want but buddy that is just delusional.
@@revominds Yeah, my state is run by republicans, and always has been (Ohio) and they literally DID drain multiple lakes and clean them. 🤷♂️ Democrats always make excuses instead of results
@@getchasome6230 stop lying
Love this ❤️❤️❤️ so original Yee! Shoutout to the teachers and students that go on this field trip every year you guys really care about the environment I don’t see stuff like this anymore :(
I used to go there with my folks for picnics all the time when I was growing up in the 50's. What fond memories. I always had to feed the ducks !
Somehow siphon off all the burger wrappers and corn dog sticks from Kwikway, and you're halfway there!
Not only lake Merritt but alameda beach 🏖 too
That one is swimmable though, just nasty
What would make lake merrit swimmable;
A local government that actually worked.
And residents who would allow bayside construction, which has historically been impossible around here
Its run by democrats.
Folks in the town have to keep it clean
It would help if stop throwing your used syringes in.
Yeah like Flint
Why not filter the incoming sewer drains at the entry and exit points?
I just jumped in. Should I see a doctor?
yes
YES!!!~
Patrick take some CIPRO Right away.
Yes - a psychiatrist!
Nah, you’re immune to COVID.
Thank You for this report.
Wetlands and swamps are amazing cleaners. Another natural way would be to introduce Zebra mussels to filter the water but that introduces invasive species issue.
exactly, not to mention the wetland that is now Lake Merritt used to slowly filter/drain its water out to the bay. Oakland would do well to introduce more water plants into the edges of the lake, that would be an easy and inexpensive first step to give the Lake resources for self cleaning.
Lake Merritt is a state refuge. There are plenty of other places around to swim.
Damn, wanted to move close to that. Gonna have to nope outta that decision.
still a nice lake to look at, just to swim in not so much
It might not always be that way!
Came here after doing a search of Lake Merritt due to the ongoing algae bloom that’s killing all the marine life 😔 … I live two blocks from the lake rn plus ever since I moved to Oakland in the late aughts it’s been my and many other people’s personal treasure. Here’s hoping the lake bounces back! Even if I never want to swim in it 😝
might as well make the 2 skiny prongs (one already designated) as wetlands if your just going to have one beach. be even healthier and would be a beautiful thing
look at arcata wetlands and marsh they have like 8 pools of some combo of sewage rain and sea water . very healthy process to clean the water
Can we please focus on cleaning our water in this nation?
This is part of our nation 🤦🏼♀️
everyone has a RIGHT to Clean water.
Lololol. OAKLAND CALIFORNIA IS NOT RUN BY REPUBLICANS!!!!!
what a moron.
@@getchasome6230 - SOON we will DISBAND and Arrest the Repubican party.
@@markplott4820 Oh will ya? Make sure your mom knows to come pick you up after.
Do Lake Merced next please! Why don’t people kayak on Lake Merced?
Plenty of us race dragon boats on Lake Merced. Trust me, it's even worse than Lake Merritt and we still race there lol
Move it to Lake Berryesa?
Leptospirosis?
i am ready for a swim!
Ooooh , Toxic Waste its all ours - Addams Family.
I remember growing up there in the 80s and people would pull muscles out of their during low levels and cook them...
So it was originally a swamp, isn’t that another name for a wetland? People tried to make a lake out of a wetland and the result wasn’t so great, solution? Turn it back into a wetland !
That's a big brain solution these people don't have the capacity in their tiny smol brains to figure that one out. 😂🤣
cool
When I move here 20 years ago, the lake was much smaller and help clean it. Still today
Wrote a song 'bout it. Like to hear it? Here it go...
Best media to come out of the Yay since RBL posse if you ask me
Theres a lesson to be learned
the fish from there is pretty tasty actually
Lake Merritt is beautiful and disgusting
Yes it is.
What a sespool
Cesspool.
Happy memories. If I ever get to know you better. We will laugh. No swimming was involved. Lol
Wind blown and hand dropped garbage. Finance could repair this if focused intentionally on filtering straining and oxygenation
The ducks are a health hazard for swimmers
Yup. When I was growing up one of our local lakes gor so nast becau see e of birds they had to drain the whole thing and start over
OAKLAND TO COMPTON ❤😈
lime scooter landfill lake
Water...
Who is responsible for this area the Mayor telling people don't have money every a months people pay for all kind of what happened if the person who in charge for the city they of Oakland his responsible for cleaning for the city ??
I jumped in to get my wallet that was thrown from the bridge, I almost sunk in and died
People have died in the lake
Who threw your wallet from the bridge?
yup,home
Put in fishes that eat waste. Just make sure no one getting the fishes out from there for food.
Those Vietnamese will clean it out faster than you can say "Hannoi Jane."
That does nothing. You need plants to remove the nitrates.
Permaculture solutions?
LMAO "lake" merit is a slough
They say that in the video.
Definitely a white Town now
It's beyond yucky 🤣
Get the guns, bodies, sharks out
true
Why bother
Actually your human history is backwards it's a story that's told inside of lake merit inside the bird museum about how the native american was there in 1810 living civilization and fishing which the lake was use for before they relocated tell a real facts on a story before you put it out there
I don't want to hear the song. Rest of the video was great.
It's not swimmable because the locals will swipe your clothes while you are in the water. Those perps run pretty fast, you know. They matter, don't they?
Found the racist.
@@falcoperegrinus82 and I found the virtue signaler
A crying shame...
Its gross because Oakland is gross
Duh
Hmm.. democrats failing to manage water....
Where have we seen this before??????
Yeah.... like mississipi and all those southern states are the go to tourists destinations
Are there any republican cities that are Hot tourists destinations
@@tyrone42ful no. The people in the republican states ARE the tourists those states so desperately depend on