Using vegetation to keep people out of lakes?
Anyone have experience excluding people from using a contaminated lake by filling the shoreline with cattails or encouraging the overgrowth of submerged aquatics? (I know, most of us spend our lives trying to do just the opposite…..). Any examples and/or experience with such techniques appreciated.
Thanks; Earl Byron, Ph.D.; Senior Technologist/Aquatic Science
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Probably not the answer you are going to like but… The best tools we found for getting the community to steer clear of a contaminated lake is by spreading the word – inform, inform, inform!
That and make sure if you do use vegetation to keep people out make sure it wont exacerbate the issue by altering run off from a stream or trapping algea, etc…
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