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Clear Lake is not so clear these days

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A pontoon boat cruises Clear Lake off Lakeport, Calif., below Mount Konocti on Sunday, June 7, 2026. (Roger Coryell/Bay City News)

Pull up the satellite map from the San Francisco Estuary Institute, and it colors each lake by how much cyanobacteria the satellite can see — black for absent, up through blue and green and orange to a deep red at the top of the scale. Clear Lake glows red almost from one end to the other.

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