To explain what we are about, let me show you an email we received:
“You treated our lake for us two or three years ago and did a good job. You also said that the chemicals wouldn’t do a lasting job with our clear water and that we needed to increase nutrients to cause an algal bloom that would shade out aquatic vegetation — primarily coon tail, I think. You were certainly right as we now have one of the most impressive coon tail accumulations in the U.S. As you will recall, the lake is about 25 acres with much of it quite shallow. Can you think about this problem a bit and give me a rough ballpark figure on what it might cost to treat the water chemically and then to follow up with a fertilization program that would give us a healthier and more pleasing lake? Many thanks.”
This email embodies many of the reason we developed this site, and this program.
This very gracious gentleman realized that the problem was with the lack of follow up, and not with the lack of proper treatment. Many pond and lake owners do not realize this, and feel cheated when the weeds return.
The problem is usually not with the chemical treatment, the problem is that the chemical treatment is merely stopping the symptoms, and if nothing is done to solve the problem, it will return.
Sometimes, the problem is eutrophycation, the presence of too much fertility, but in most cases, it is shallow water, and lack plankton inducing fertility.
To keep the weeds from returning, something has to be done to reduce the water clarity, to prevent light from penetrating to the bottom. The best way to accomplish this, short of dredging the lake is with fertilization.
We offer advice to the property owner on how to accomplish this and other lake and pond management tasks.
