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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – On Saturday, June 24, Dr. Harry Lyons will kick off the Clear Lake State Park’s Saturday Summer Speaker Series with a talk on the Middle Creek Restoration project.
This informative and interesting program will begin at 1 p.m. at the park visitor center, 5300 Soda Bay Road, Kelseyville.
Admission is free to enter the park for those attending the session, and the visitor center will be open for business.
Dr. Lyons has lived in Lake County for 40 years, for much of that time conveying scientific information on Clear Lake to two generations of college students.
If you have ever heard Dr. Lyons speak, you will be both informed and entertained.
The emeritus professor of biology/ecology from Yuba College grew up in Brooklyn, attended Rutgers College and Stanford University, and was awarded PhD in oceanography as a National Science Fellow from the Scripps Institution of the University of California.
He currently pursues his interest in water by serving as a director of the Lake County Resource Conservation District and as a founding member of the Middle Creek Restoration Coalition.
The project, proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers more than 20 years ago in response to a request by the county of Lake, would act on scientific findings in bestowing immeasurable benefits to the health of Clear Lake and to the people who live and visit here.
The project will deliberately breach failing levees on Middle Creek and restore 1,650 acres of historic wetlands at the north end of Clear Lake.
This winter, Clear Lake rose to its highest flood levels in 19 years and flood waters overtopped the levees. The uncontrolled failure of the levees is a real and present danger to lives and property.
The completed project is the single most effective action that can be taken to improve the quality of the water in Clear Lake, according to advocates.
Based on scientific research, restored historic wetlands in the project area will capture nutrient-laden sediments that currently flow into Clear Lake causing rampant growth of invasive aquatic plants and uncontrollable "blooms" of cyanobacteria, commonly called blue green algae.
The project also will restore wildlife habitat, improve breeding and rearing conditions for the threatened Clear Lake hitch, a native fish, and provide significant recreational opportunities for residents and visitors to Clear Lake.
