City Of Faribault issued the following announcement on Oct 10.
BE THOUGHTFUL THIS FALL: While our rives and lakes contain bacteria and insects that can consume some leaves, if too many leaves wash into rivers and lakes, those leaves decompose into the fertilizer phosphorus that feeds lake algae and can turn our rives and lakes green and stinky.
https://www.ci.faribault.mn.us/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=267
Original source can be found here.
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