Florida Fish Clean Foreclosed Pools

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Wellington, Florida, responsible for maintaining vacant and abandoned properties, is using plecos, a type of fish, to feast on algae accumulating in the stagnant water of untended swimming pools. A year of cleaning the pools with the fish costs around $700, compared with the more expensive and less eco-friendly measure of hiring pool services and chemically treating the water.

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Florida's foreclosed homes don't just have unmowed lawns and broken windows. Some also have swimming pools full of stagnant rainwater and overrun with algae. One village has taken a novel approach to cleaning those pools; instead of hiring pool services, residents are letting the catfish loose.