Duck pond at Cuddy Park is much cleaner

A “Don’t Feed the Birds” campaign seems to be making a difference when it comes to the duck pond at Cuddy Park.
Thom Eley with the Anchorage Waterways Council said levels of fecal coliform, the bacteria that comes from bird feces, is normally sky-high this time of year, but two recent tests show the levels have dropped dramatically.
“I thought it was a fluke at first,” said Eley, so we tested again and basically got the same numbers.”
Eley said just a year ago