Recreationists planning to spend Labor Day weekend at Weber County’s Pineview Reservoir should be careful to avoid a harmful blue-green algal bloom, according to health department officials.
Weber-Morgan Health Department officials said in a news release Saturday that while Pineview Reservoir wasn’t closed, people and pets should avoid touching the scum produced by the bloom or ingesting the water.
The bloom is the latest issue at the lake, which only reopened to the public Friday after being closed to accomodate fire crews scooping water from it to extinguish the nearby Avon Fire.
The health department’s environmental health director Michela Harris said in the release that those visiting the lake should stay away from areas with algae scum, and to be aware that wind and changing temperatures can cause the bloom to move to other parts of the lake.