Parts of Lake Hopatcong are safe for swimming again after the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection issued a warning about a harmful algae bloom. The DEP issued the warning at the end of ...

Algal blooms in an Atlantic County lake have forced swimming bans over the past several days. Hamilton Township police issued an advisory against swimming at the Cove Beach at Lake Lenape in Mays ...

An advisory against any contact with water on Lake Hopatcong was lifted Friday afternoon for a small portion of the waterbody — the first time in almost a month since algae levels skyrocketed in one ...

LANDING − With a turn (actually 67 turns) of a wheel, the Hopatcong Dam fountain slowly gushed to life late Tuesday morning, ending a quarter-century of inactivity. On a set of stairs overlooking the ...

The Hopatcong Dam fountain reopened at the perfect time on July 16: amid a heat wave. Dozens of residents and local officials gathered at a reactivation ceremony that morning, celebrating their ...

The latest heat wave to hit North Jersey may have snapped, but the effects left from the steamy weather has led to the formation of a harmful algal bloom in Lake Hopatcong, forcing the beach area of ...