“I?m looking at Mendota now,” lake expert Steve Carpenter said Thursday from his UW-Madison office. “It?s windy and wavy, and it?s looking pretty good.” But we?re not going to have ? nor would we want ? a drought every year, Carpenter stressed. The extremely dry weather damaged crops, lawns and the economy. “So what we want to do is find a way to improve the quality of the lakes without having a drought,” said Carpenter, the director of the university?s Center for Limnology.
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