{"id":21763,"date":"2016-04-06T08:05:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/twin-lakes-drained-for-weed-control\/"},"modified":"2016-04-06T08:05:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:05:19","slug":"twin-lakes-drained-for-weed-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/twin-lakes-drained-for-weed-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Lakes drained for weed control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you notice a decrease in the water level at Twin Lakes \u2014 despite this week\u2019s drizzly weather \u2014 it\u2019s because the City and Borough of Juneau\u2019s Parks and Recreation Department and the Alaska Department of Fish &amp; Game are draining the lakes to control milfoil, an invasive aquatic weed.<\/p>\n<p>The lakes are drained annually and filled with salt water, which controls milfoil without using herbicides. Left unchecked, milfoil can cause serious ecological damage to the lakes\u2019 ecosystems, and interferes with recreational swimming and fishing.<\/p>\n<p>The lakes should be refilled by mid-April. The gangway connecting the fishing float with shore will be removed for the duration of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you notice a decrease in the water level at Twin Lakes \u2014 despite this week\u2019s drizzly weather \u2014 it\u2019s because the City and Borough of Juneau\u2019s Parks and Recreation Department and the Alaska Department of Fish &amp; Game are draining the lakes to control milfoil, an invasive aquatic weed. The lakes are drained annually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21763"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}