Extreme El Niño-fueled storms in California in the spring of 2016 led to a strange appearance in Pinto Lake. Call it the birth of a breakaway island. A half-acre chunk of wetland covered with trees and grasses broke off one of the banks and began zig-zagging around the 120-acre lake located near Watsonville, according to a report in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Officials even dubbed the floating phenomenon "Roomba Island" because environmental experts hoped its roots would help absorb nutrients from fertilizers that cause the lake's many toxic algae blooms. For now the mysterious island seems to have wedged itself against a bank and may remain there or eventually decompose.
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