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Originally Posted by Lakegeezer
The problem with septic and fertilizer phosphorus is much of it enters the water during the summer tourist season when the water is warm, and the algae is hungry. Maintaining shoreline vegetation and porous soil, along with holding dams, slows down the flush of water that brings phosphorus with it following summer gully washers. The theory is that spring phosphorus is the largest contributor...
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1) The newish McMansion next door, which has "issues", converted a garage to an additional bedroom, and shares a leachfield with a long-existing cottage that added bedroom
s (
already with "issues"), is presently on a "micro-lot"—due to encroachment by a Mega-McMansion (which has even-bigger "issues").
2) The building of the McMansion's concrete basement next door blocked the natural flow of rainfall across a wide area. That blockage has increased an existing rivulet's flow between our properties.
Now it is showing a large clump of algae at the lake's edge—
in April.
3) The photograph that follows is very similar view to 80% of our 1-acre lot: IMHO, it represents how shorelines
should have been historically "maintained".
The photo shows mostly "second-growth" pine trees and a covering of natural forest "duff". With the passage of another half-century, many trees will be culled by Mother Nature. After 54 years,
our trees are fewer, but 'way larger, than those pictured. The forest floor looks identical, however.
