Maintain Your Shoreline and Limit Use of Fertilizers Explosive weed growth in ponds and lakes is often due to fertilizer runoff. The same nutrients that make your lawn flourish or help with other forms of agriculture can wash into water bodies and cause weeds to take over. Overgrowth of weeds at the water-land interface can …
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In the previous post, we discussed how D.A.S.H. (Diver-Assisted Suction Harvesting) performs some minor dredging during the process of weed removal, but sometimes full-scale dredging is unavoidable. Dredging reverses that natural process of erosion. In the area served by EcoWaterway, many of the lakes and ponds were carved out by glacial processes, but over thousands …
The short answer is that it stands for Diver-Assisted Suction Harvesting. The long answer is that it is the best way in most cases to get rid of unwanted aquatic vegetation, including invasive species. There are other ways of addressing unwanted vegetation, such as aquatic herbicides, dredging, use of dyes that will temporarily suppress photosynthesis …
You live next to a lake so that you and your family can enjoy it. Muck interferes with that. There are a lot of muck removal options out there that range in price, effort, and effectiveness. In this post, we will look at the most common options and evaluate them. Lake Muck Rake As the …
Here in Southeast Wisconsin, our rich alluvial soils are the result of glacial and erosive processes. But erosion obviously isn’t always a good thing. Silt and debris wash into bodies of water and give footing to aquatic, transitional, and land plants, causing land to encroach on water. Wave action and runoff combine to erode shoreline …
There are a large variety of methods of trying to remove weeds from lakes and ponds. Some are more effective and environmentally friendly than others. First of all, some aquatic plants and algae are essential for a healthy aquatic environment. They photosynthesize and release oxygen into the water. When they bloom or grow excessively, though–and …
