Lake Elsinore Mayor Tim Sheridan, top right, Nick Fidler, public works director of Menifee, bottom left, discuss the health of Lake Elsinore and its economic impact on the cities at the Lake Elsinore San Jacinto Watershed Authority Summit Wednesday, April 27, in Lake Elsinore. Valley News/TonyAult photo
The 2022 Lake Elsinore San Jacinto Watershed Authority Summit, which was held Wednesday, April 27, at Launch Point in Lake Elsinore, brought a top aquatic ecologist, an environmental scientist and lake phosphorus removal expert together to discuss the current and future Lake Elisinore and Canyon Lake fishery habitat efforts and plans.The summit filled the community center with officials from local cities, water district representatives, flood control experts, forest service officers and top local fishermen to hear what has been happening to the two lakes’ fish and plant habitats and the efforts to remove harmful algae and phosphorus that endangers the fish populations.Dale Welty, chair of LESJWA and a Canyon Lake Council member, introduced the morning’s speakers: John Rudolph,
