Edina residents question city's move to stop killing invasive weed in Lake Cornelia
From his backyard in Edina, Ralph Zickert has been watching all summer as curly-leaf pondweed grew in dark patches across Lake Cornelia. Zickert an...
From his backyard in Edina, Ralph Zickert has been watching all summer as curly-leaf pondweed grew in dark patches across Lake Cornelia. Zickert and many of his neighbors on the lake have been frustrated with the slow progress in cleaning up the lake, especially after city officials this year decided against killing the invasive pondweed as it had done since an infestation several years ago choked the lake. "It was a mass of green. It was a mat," Zickert recalled. "You couldn't boat across." Zickert said he and other lakefront residents worry the pondweed will get that bad again.