Water experts are telling visitors to Utah Lake to keep themselves, their pets and other animals out of Provo Bay, after finding a blue-green algal bloom there.
The Utah County Health Department is posting warning signs at the Swede Sportsman Access on the south side of Provo Bay, to tell people not to recreate there because potentially harmful algal blooms are present.
“We’re doing what we can with the signage we do have,” said Aislynn Tolman-Hill, spokeswoman for the Utah County Health Department. “Really, it’s about education and awareness for the public.”
A bloom was reported June 6, and crews from the Utah Department of Environmental Quality’s Division of Water Quality collected five samples at and around the Swede Sportsman Access.