Juneau County Sheriff's Office received a call for a welfare check shortly before 6 pm at a Town of Germantown residence. Responding deputies discovered a 61-year-old woman dead in a small lake on the residence. It appeared she attempted to retrieve a water trampoline that detached from its anchor, according to authorities.
Authorities say floodwaters from the swollen Little Sioux River have carried an invasive fish into a northwest Iowa city lake.
Authorities have released the name of a 6-year-old girl who died after being pulled from a Des Moines lake.
Authorities have recovered the body of a 76-year-old man who drowned while swimming in a northern Minnesota lake.
Officials in central New York say an aging sewer pipe that's slated to be replaced has failed yet again, causing 4.5 million gallons (17 million liters) of raw sewage to flow into a lake.
Experts say there's no guarantee that placing structures in the St. Clair River would elevate Lakes Huron and Michigan to their normal levels because they might not offset the effects of a warming climate.
Construction will begin at the Lake Altoona Park Boat Landing and parking lot on September 3.
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is testing the water quality of Lake Winnebago to find out whether blue-green algae produce toxins in drinking water.
