LAKESIDE — A Lakeside work group needs more time to figure out how to solve Tenmile Lakes’ pollution problem.

Coos County commissioner Melissa Cribbins said another work group meeting has been scheduled for 10 a.m. July 9 at the Lakeside Senior Center, 915 N. Lake Road, “to see if we can work everything out.”

The work group’s April meeting left ranchers and officials unsure how to proceed.

Ranchers were concerned by a possible tax that would be implemented, should a special district be created. The work group missed the May deadline to put the special district on the November ballot.

The lake has been closed several times over the last several years due to blue-green algae outbreaks that make the water toxic.