ST. LOUIS — Taking a stroll around Carondelet Park's small lake could have you smelling rotten fish.
"Really bad sewage smell and it stunk real bad," said Marcus Foggy.
Hundreds of fish have gone belly up.
"The entire lake was covered last week with algae," said Barbara Huelsing
Workers are removing decaying fish and circulating the water to stabilize the lake.
"This type of thing where we see fish killers in July and August isn’t an uncommon thing," said Dan Zarlenga Missouri Department of Conservation. "You have a situation where a pond or lake has algae or plankton growing in it and when it dies off it decomposes the decomposing process uses up oxygen in the water and that stress and kills fish."
The lake is still open but park-goers are encouraged to use caution around the small lake.