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Wews & Observer(Print Friendly) : http : //www . newsobserver . com/tu . . 0 /909734p - 907336c . htm Page 2 of 2 <br /> big rain to cloud the lakes anew . <br /> " This is kind of like putting a Band -Aid on the leg you amputated , " said Moody , standing next to an uprooted <br /> particle curtain on Wednesday . <br /> Last month , Lucy Mantilla , Durant Nature Park' s assistant manager , found hope in a tadpole and mayfly larvae <br /> she scooped out of the upper lake . Neither creature tolerates silt very well . She also found dragonfly nymphs , <br /> snails , a small fish and " a gelatinous egg mass . " Levels of oxygen were normal in the lake , and levels of most <br /> common pollutants weren 't elevated , Mantilla said . <br /> Last summer , day campers swam as they always have in the lower lake . The fishermen haven ' t stayed away , <br /> either . But the clear waters won 't return until the construction upstream is over , said Richard A . McLaughlin , <br /> associate professor of soil science at N . C . State University and a sedimentation expert . <br /> " It ' s really just a matter of getting clean water in there to flush that out and start over again , " McLaughlin said . <br /> Staff writer James Eli Shiffer can be reached at 83 & 5701 or ishiffer C newsobserver . com . <br /> BACK] <br /> © Copyright 2000 , The News & Observer. All material found on newsobserver. com is copyrighted The News & Observer and associated news <br /> services . No material may be reproduced or reused without explicit permission from The News & Observer, <br /> r <br /> http : //cgi . newsobserver . com/standing/help /tools/_scripts/ friendly-print . cgl 02 / 12/2002 <br />