Lake Tapps Milfoil Eradication Begins Next Week

Starting next Tuesday, crews will be out manually removing milfoil from Lake Tapps.

This is the third year of the milfoil eradication program, and the first year there will be no herbicide applications in the lake, Cascade Water Alliance announced earlier this week. 

The task will take about three weeks.

Cascade, the owner of the local reservoir, has asked residents to document milfoil on their property. Many residents have thought they had milfoil but it was just a native species.

If you think there is milfoil on your slice of the lake, pull it up, take a picture and send it to contact@cascadewater.org for a determination of whether it is indeed milfoil or just native species. Cascade staff will follow up with people individually.