Milford Lake is under a blue green algae warning, but it doesn’t mean the public can’t boat or fish. Most of the lake is open for those activities.

KDHE put the north Zone C at a closed level. That area stretches from Madison Point north to the Wakefield Causeway, but the remainder of the lake from Madison Point south to the Dam is open for boating and fishing.

R. J. Harms with the Corps of Engineers, explained the closed zone. “The numbers from up at Timber Creek and the Wakefield area were really high.” Harms added some of the numbers seen up there last summer were high. “So they  have a new category where they actually want us to close the lake and really keep people out of that part of the water. So that’s what we’re in right now. So Zone A is in a warning, Zone B is in a warning, and Zone C is actually closed.”

In the warning areas of Zones A and B direct contact with the water is prohibited, such as swimming or jet skiing. But fishing and boating are allowed in Zones A and B and those large sections of the lake are definitely open for that activity.