Alum treatment set for next month

FAIRLEE—For the second time in nearly 40 years, a local lake will be treated with aluminum sulfate, or alum, in an effort to improve water quality. In 1986, alum was applied to Lake Morey capping phosphorus sediments at the bottom of the lake. It was a treatment that worked for more than three decades. But in recent years, algae blooms have proliferated during hot and dry conditions. Next month, town and state entities will implement another alum treatment to try to get the algae under control.