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Interesting video. Lots of cool info. Would you say Clear Lake, CA is a nice place to live? Like overall? Of course its a relative question but the algea and potential bad smell of the water is that the only "issue"?

Lake county is a depressing shitehole, the poorest county in the state, it is strangely cursed and very unfriendly. Even without the algae the water is filthy.

Euros naming Clear Lake was a marketting ploy. More appropriate name is Xabatin, Pomo for Big Water.

In other sections its clear bro 😂

Largest surface area lake??? Who lied to you about that? 😂 there are several larger lakes in the state

They should put whatever in Lake Michigan that eats all the algae

Disgusting

the smell....

Lake Amador is worse

The Nitrogen issue with the lake started when sewage systems dumped run off into the lake. Today’s issue continues to be high Nitrogen due to the algae cycle and continued nitrogen runoff tho most of it today is fertilizer. The shallow nature and high temperature of the water promotes the growth. Only way to reduce this issue is to physically remove the nitrogen content which would mean actually removing material from the lake. Not removing dead material simply just runs the perpetual nitrogen cycle with it getting worse over time.

Clearlake is a real shit show lake smells really badly a lot of in bread hillbilly's a ton and i mean a ton of drugs and drug addicts!!! If you want to keep something nail it down 😜😜 or it will be gone i lived there 3 years slum lord's yes talking about you Bill at Lakeland mobile home village!!! Go to the other side of lake Lakeport is beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks for this video. I won't be buying here... :(

Water + sunlight = algae. But that is a bit excessive. Can indicate sewage running into the lake. Anywhere's, thanks for the video.

What is the condition of the lake now -- 2024?

clear lake is a shallow "eutrophic" lake. i dont suppose it is so much the historic pollution as the age of the lake. the ucd studies may or may not enlighten the reason the lake has algae blooms but for eutrophic lakes it is just the norm. understanding the periods between algae bloom and clarity require a much deeper dive (pun intended).

Some of the best bass fishing in the world. Swim bait mania.

Clear lake hasn't been clear for over a 100 years . One big sewer !

The oldest lake in North America is Clear Lake

We took the boat there many times during the summers of the 60s and 70s. I remember catching lots of crappie. Guess those are gone now.

Doesn't clearlake sit on a volcanic cauldron?

Pge heated the lake up with its tunnels and ruined the lake

I worked for the lakeport school district for 17 yrs and some. Times u miss it after 2 yrs of drug abuse I got my kids back and moved to Montana buy some time I hope to revisit my kids were born there and my ex mother in law is still there just don't let the dark side of the lake eat ypu alive

It was not like this when I went to high school.

As someone who was born in and still lives in lake county, it is very sad to see the lake in such terrible and dirty conditions

Been there. There is absolutely nothing clear about that lake. Not to mention the meth problem.

I actually grew up in Kelseyville inLake County and it was a great place to grow up in ❤❤I really miss my hometown, unfortunately I don’t have any family left in the county both my parents have passed away as well as my uncle who lived in Lucern😢

There is a lot of interesting California history in Clearlake. Yolo County owns the water in Clearlake, at least the top layer. There is a formula based on the Rumsey gauge readings of the lake level that dictates how much water is released through the Cache Creek Dam for irrigation for Yolo County farmers. The algae blooms ( cyanobacteria actually ) happens because the lake is rich in nutrients and there is a low flushing rate of water due to the only outlet is Cache Creek. So during algae die off the nutrients get recycled back into the water column for next years bloom. There has been progress made in slowing the introduction of new nutrients into the lake. But even if there was zero nutrients added, it has been estimated it would be at least 100 years before the nutrient levels would be reduced enough to make a difference in the blooms. Clearlake is very unique, it is the oldest lake in north america. Normally in the life of a lake it gradually fills in with silt, becomes a marsh then a fertile grassland. Clearlake, thanks to volcanic actions, the lake bottom keeps dropping, so it hasnt filled in. There is a superfund toxic waste site on the shores of the Clearlake Oaks arm of the lake. Mercury has leached from old borax mines and is being contained there. Federal EPA just finished local public input on how to proceed with cleanup. That might start in 2024 or 25. There is a mystery about a hidden underground lake beneath Mt. Konocti that was formed from a cavern left when magma receded. There are tales of local tribes accessing the caverns and there has been attempts to rediscover access vents to what is believed to be the largest cavern in the US.

I went last September and wondered why there was nobody on or in the lake.

I moved there in 1972 my grandpa's cabin

There’s no ugly truth about clear lake oks I live in it

There's a lot more to Lake County too. Numerous trails for hiking, eagle watching etc

Sorry guys but I’m one of those people. Rented a lake house there last weekend and I wasn’t impressed. The town of Lakeport was nice but super small. Lake was green so I didn’t wanna swim in it. The area has potential for sure but it wasn’t my thing. The food at parks place was amazing tho 😋

I have held my dream for 24 years and was finally able to start building a few years ago...I bought my property 24 years ago this coming Sept 18th. Every else in my family has frowned on the idea of my dream, to build a home to leave to my kids. From your view of Konocti you must be on the north shore over by the narrows possibly. I'm in Horseshoe Bay, one of the worst places on the lake for algae blooms. I should have my shop dried in soon, but what really caught my attention was the pigs on your property towards the end at 5:24 I have been planning to hunt pigs in the area and I have never seen any in Buckingham. Hoping to hunt around Ukiah. I live in the bay area right now...my wife never liked Lake County, my family tried to talk me out of it, everyone asked me about meth labs and crackheads, but I have never run into those types of people in lake county. Many people thumb their nose at Lake County, but I love it. I always seem to see the beauty within it. When I look out from 3rd street the lake is beautiful, driving around Soda Bay, or even driving over 175 from Hopland, it is the quintessential California...rolling hills with oaks...my dream still seems so far away, but I won't let it go...

I grew up spending summers on the lake at the house my grandfather built in 1922. The algae was just something we dealt with. We had a beautiful view of the mountain from our beach new Oak Cove. Will always love it.

Clear Lake was actually named for the clear air of Lake County. The water was never clear. We just swam off the dock in Buckingham yesterday and it was beautiful.

Clearlake is not clear the best line

I used to live clearlake. My friends and I have sailed many times. I worked at konocti harbor. It is too sad to see this. Wow. Too nitrogen. Too many vineyards flow into a almost contained system. The pH is off. Restore the most natural pH and it should help

Meth is what happened!

In 2000 when ever my family and I drove through there it was deeper they had boats on those wooden docks houses where nice and lots of people swimming having fun now its low and smells like dirty diapers all the way through 😢 so sad

Have they checked if the DDT spraying in the 60s had any residual effects? I was a kid IN that water as the plane flew over.

All that debris flying right in that kids face🤦🏼‍♂️ where's cps when you need them?...

I bet if you hoped on over to Google Books and did some digging you'd discover that volcano was active just a few centuries back.... One tip. Make sure you are only looking in books published before 1899 - the lies are hardcore after that on all subjects.

Was that the drama effect, you dropping the bucket

It's gross lookin and smells terribly. It's worse than walking by a sewage pond.

Stupid what people did it A Clearlake. This USA has no pride for it's country. Shame on this cuntry.

Clear lake is one of the nasty lake I've seen but heard fishes there are active. When people don't take care of the lake

Intro was definitly longer than my last relationship.

Love it

I actually think Clear Lake is a fairly cool place to visit. I might imagine retiring there one day. There are problems, but there’s a lot to like. I spent a weekend in Lakeport last year, not perfect, but there were no rows of tents along the main drag. Give thanks for small blessings.

Been living here for 22 years now. This place has changed so much. So many new people. There’s actually traffic now and I no longer see the same strangers over and over again. The town is even making changes. It feels like a mini San Francisco. Which makes me really sad. Hopefully the people who just moved here go back to where they came from. I miss the old lake. A little quiet sleepy country town. 😢