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Chapala arroyo clogged with trash

Chapala’s Public Sanitation Department dispatched a crew last week to clean up trash and debris accumulated at the bottom end of the Arroyo San Marcos where it crosses under a bridge on Avenida González Gallo near the former railway station.

Villagers mount defense against lakefront fencing

Exasperated because government authorities have failed to curtail what they see as privatization of federal land, dozens of Ajijic inhabitants have taken the law into their own hands to tear down fencing installed along Lake Chapala’s shoreline.

South shore development closed again

For the second time in just over a year, agents from the State Attorney for Environmental Protection (Proepa) have slapped a temporary total closure order on a real estate development project located on the Lake Chapala’s south shore in the municipality of Jocotepec.

Storm washes down Chapala

A mighty deluge early Wednesday, August 11, turned the streets and pedestrian staircases of central Chapala into scenes reminiscent of Venice and Niagara Falls.