PONDer These Thoughts
We recommend that you consider the following tips during
the spring months to be sure your pond to be prepared for warm weather:
- Examine basin inlet(s)
and outlet(s) to ensure devices are obstruction free and operational.
- If your pond’s vegetative
buffer was not trimmed last fall, the spring time is also a good
season to remove dead
vegetation from the buffer, setting the stage for healthy growth this
year.
- Spring is also an
ideal time of the year to enhance your pond or basin’s buffer with
supplemental plantings. Flowering plants can be added to pepper in some color.
imbalance or increased
nutrient load in the water.
- Be patient if you notice spring algae or green water. Once
your pond has established a balance, either naturally or with assistance from
an annual maintenance program, algae will clear up.
- If your fountains were stored during the harsh, winter months,
schedule for them to be put back into the water and have them run 24/7 to
increase healthy dissolved oxygen in the water.
- For all you anglers out there
— don’t be tempted to cast too close to the fountain! Every spring we get
several calls about fountains going down due to fishing lines being sucked up into the impellors and wrapped around the shaft. This causes failed seals and
expensive repairs.
SOLitude Lake Management is a full service lake, pond and fisheries management company servicing VA, NC, SC, MD, DE, PA, WV, NJ & NY. Aquatics products and consultation available nationwide. www.solitudelakemanagement.com
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