S.F.’s dirty little secret: The Lake Merced cesspool

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Once a prize jewel among the nation’s cities, San Francisco’s Lake Merced has deteriorated into a cesspool. The conditions are captured in this gallery of photos I took on Friday. Water quality, recreation access, fishing, boating, and the once-famous Boathouse Restaurant and Bar, resemble a gutter. That is because gutters are where the water comes from that goes into the lake these days. Run-off from city streets, and its oil, grime and trash, along with nitrates from fertilizer from adjacent golf courses, has turned the lake a putrid green that can turn your stomach. Recreation facilities, including the boat hoists, special kids-only fishing pier and shoreline fishing access, have been [...]

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at that same lake, just a few hundred yards south of those sites is the Rod & Gun club struggling for survival;

http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Rod-Gun-Club-gets-2nd-shot-at-survival-3785694.php