Lake Las Vegas...Algae Bloom muddies waters! Environmentalists keep watch....

A Lake Las Vegas spokesperson - Anita-Marie Laurie - has acknowledged that about one-thousand precious fish have died in Lake Las Vegas due to a golden algae threat in the three-hundred-forty acre Lake (which was man made for recreational purposes).

Laurie reported that the fish were first sighted when they floated to the surface dead.

Unfortunately, because Lake Las Vegas is so large, there is no known treatment to cure the problem over such a vast area.

"The algae will have to be left to run its course," Weber said.

The good news is that the algae is only harmful (toxic) to fish and amphibians that use gills to breathe.

The algae is known by the scientific name - Prymnesium parvum - according to lake and river ecologists.

Until the algae dissipates in the near future of its own accord - and in sync with the natural order of things - there are few signs of the algae bloom visible to the naked human eye.

"The water just looks a ittle darker than usual," the spokesperson noted for the record.

"I just flew over it from the air and it looked beautiful."

Even still, the thought of a dip in it, gives me the willies!

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