The event is free and there will be beer stands, food trucks and local vendors.Īnd, of course, there’s music. folks can head to the northside of the lake near the Boat House and Jetty at Byron Place and Utica. On Saturday, the festival returns for its sixth year. One of the ways the foundation is working to get that funding and also bring awareness to the lake’s needs is through the Jamming on the Jetty Music Festival.
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Later, the lake could be dredged to bring it back to full health. Some of those solutions include maintaining an existing forebay, which filters out sediments, and installing additional ones. Beaty/DenveriteĬohen said cleaning the surrounding area is simple but to really save the lake, the long-term solutions need to be addressed and that costs money. But we have to do our part to fix it.”Ĭohen is the vice-chair of the Sloan’s Lake Park Foundation and their goal is to save Sloan’s Lake.Īn audience has assembled to watch Rico Jones, Bill McCrossen and Vlad and Aleks Girshevich play a front-lawn concert across the street from Sloan's Lake. It has the most magical sunsets and sunrises. “This is one of the most beautiful lakes in Denver. “Within the next generation, this lake will disappear if we don’t do something to fix it,” Cohen said. Last year, the lake closed due to toxic levels of blue-green algae and in 2020 about 400 fish died in a single week due to a fish-kill caused by algae and warming temperatures. Now, it’s averaging about 3.5 feet in depth. At one point, Cohen said the lake was about 18 feet deep.
Warming temperatures and runoff from nearby neighborhoods and construction in the Sloan’s Lake area have caused the lake to suffer.
On the surface, Sloan’s Lake looks fine but, according to Cohen, the lake’s in trouble. Beaty/Denveriteįolks could swim and boat back in the days and at one point, an amusement park, Manhattan Beach, was created on the lake’s shoreline.
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