When nature calls: Minnesota residents fume after 14,500 pounds of bird droppings fall in local lake

Cormorants in the trees lining Lake Augusta in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Residents are frustrated with the high volume of bird droppings that are polluting the waters - (Lower Mississippi River Watershed Management Organization)

Frustrated Minnesota residents are seeking urgent solutions to pollution in a local lake, which sees around 14,500 pounds of bird poop fall into it per year.

Lake Augusta, located in the city of Mendota Heights, becomes a haven for migrating cormorants each fall due to the dead trees that line the shore.