14th February 2018 Lake Hayes / Lake Pegasus
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The Otago Regional Council has cleared Queenstown’s Lake Hayes safe to swim in and blamed ducks for an unusually high E.coli reading.
Swimmers have been warned away from Queenstown’s popular Lake Hayes after it recorded more than three-and-a-half times the level of E.coli considered safe to swim in.
Queenstown is clamping down on badly behaved freedom campers by doubling patrols and restricting access to the popular Lake Hayes.