Shoreline Clean Up:
- Maintain living trees and shrubs along the shoreline.
- Don’t throw any organic material, incl. leaves, grass clippings, food or potting soil into lake.
- Protect the emergent GOOD WEEDS at your shoreline. Learn to identify the difference between good and bad weeds.
- We have published guidelines, with photographs, to help people learn how to identify good and bad weeds, available at this link.
- Rake up floating weeds and algae along the shoreline and around your dock. Place floating debris in bags and dispose of it away from the lake.
Lawn Maintenance:
- Have a soil test done to know what your lawn needs.
- Fertilize responsibly. If you must fertilize, remember it will eventually run-off into the lake, add nutrients to the lake and perpetuate the growth of weeds. Be sure to use low or no phosphorus fertilizer and/or fertilize less often. Current data from the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) indicates that lakes with lower levels of Phosphorus have fewer algal blooms.
- If you must water your fertilized lawn, water in small amounts, and during the day.