Echo Park lotus flowers in peril

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Echo Park Lake

( Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times )

Visitors peer down in search of blooms, but the famous lotus beds in Echo Park Lake appear to be in their final throes. Its likely that there will be no lotus at all for the first time in the 31-year history of the city's annual Lotus Festival.

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