Posted on January 28, 2016
By Cynthia Lambert, The Tribune
Laguna Lake typically serves as a home for birds and boaters, providing a peaceful oasis to residents and park-goers in western San Luis Obispo. But four years of drought left the boat ramp sitting in dried mud, killed hundreds of fish and prompted waterbirds to go elsewhere.
Thanks to recent storms, however, the lake now contains more water than it has in several months — though that water is brown, muddy and only ankle-deep.
As the water level gradually rises, the process to dig out decades of silt build-up that is slowly filling in the lakebed is also moving slowly ahead.
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