CASTAIC LAKE OPEN FOR SPRING BREAK FUN.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer It's not quite Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , but it is a beach, it's close and it's open for spring break. The county Parks and Recreation Department opened Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² to swimmers this week. On Thursday, officials said they had extended the special spring opening through the week of April 7 when local schools are out for spring vacation. Lifeguards are on duty on the beach, open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Parking is $6 per car. The water temperature is a chilly 57 degrees. The crowds haven't materialized yet, but Castaic's aquatics manager Mike Coash said he wasn't aware that local schools weren't off this week. Coash said he hopes the warm weather continues and draws swimmers to Castaic's lagoon lagoon Area of relatively shallow, quiet water with access to the sea but separated from it by sandbars, barrier islands, or coral reefs. Coastal lagoons have low to moderate tides and constitute about 13% of the world's coastline. . Castaic opened last summer to swimmers for the first time in four years after lake officials conquered a stubborn bacteria problem caused by extensive human contact in an area of the lower lake where warm water stagnated. Several efforts failed to clean up the water until a chlorination chlorination Public health Addition of chlorinated compounds to drinking water as disinfectants. Cf Ozonation. system was devised that cleansed cleanse tr.v. cleansed, cleans·ing, cleans·es To free from dirt, defilement, or guilt; purge or clean. [Middle English clensen, from Old English the water and didn't harm the fish in the lake, Coash said. The system, he added, has worked so well that a second beach will open in the summer, doubling the swimming capacity at the popular recreation center. |
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