re: Is your town one of the top 5 college towns?

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The ghetto pond is actually a nice lake, very safe, surrounded by intramural fields and the campus arboretum. I caught a 7 lb bass on a rattletrap in that lake in 1997.


This article put out by UGA says the 'lake' is polluted. LINK

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In 2002, 16 years ago, fertilizer runoff from the intramural fields caused an algae bloom.

Since then, the only real pollution is erosion runoff after heavy rains which makes the lake murky.

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“It’s not terrible,” she said. The water is clean enough now to allow boating activities, concluded students in a 2014 environmental practicum who studied the feasibility of cleaning up Lake Herrick.

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