Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA, December 2nd, 2005
Hundreds of brightly colored carp poke their mouths out of the lake at Long's Park in Lancaster gasping for air. Along the water's edge, a smattering of fish move sluggishly among the hundreds of Koi, goldfish and even some catfish that have already died. The fish are suffocating, city officials say. There is hardly any oxygen left in the water. "It was bound to happen," the city's public works director Charlotte Katzenmoyer said. "We had two or three other large fish kills like this that our staff can remember." A combination of the recent warm weather, waterfowl pollution and ignorance by pa...
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