ALICE, Texas — Lake Findley sits north of Alice and is now home to 100 trophy sized catfish.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department stocked the lake with all those catfish along with about 1,000 carp. The carp are supposed to help get rid of some invasive grasses there.
The City of Alice got together with Alice's Green Alliance to make this all happen after the non-profit pushed for lake improvements.
"We should start to see the effects within a year in lowering the amount of grass that's in the lake and the catfish; they're actually trophy sized; they're massive," Daniel Benavides with Alice's Green Alliance said.
"We've been pushing for Texas Parks and Wildlife to come back," Charlie Bazan with AGA said. "They haven't been in Alice in about 10 years, a decade, so we haven't had our lake serviced at all."
"It's awesome to see the work that they have put in, volunteers have come into play, people we've never seen out in the community are actually out there," Sandra Bowen with Alice City Council said. "They organize clean ups out there and they've got kayaks out there. You'd be amazed."
There are even more plans for Lake Findley, which includes a walking trail and a windmill to be placed on the lake, which will help area eat the water.
The local Rotary club handed over a check recently to help make that a reality.
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