The plan to cure sickly Lake Merced: Here’s how it works
Mondy Lariz spent his boyhood years learning how to fish at Lake Merced through a program sponsored by the San Francisco Police Department. It was a way to connect with the natural world, he said, and it kept him out of trouble. .. But as the surrounding golf courses and cemeteries began drawing from deep wells to irrigate their greens and urbanization crept into the area, water levels dropped dramatically. By the 1990s, many declared the lake dead.