Protecting Water Quality: Algae & Aquatic Weed Control
Checking our recent rain gauge, it seems hard to believe the Earth’s water supply is finite. The fact remains, though, that while our planet holds 326,000,000 cubic miles of water, less than 1% of that amount is available as fresh water. Water is, without question, our most precious resource on this planet. It also plays […]
Create a Fish Structure to Attract Fish and Anglers
During fishery assessment, it is not uncommon to come across spots in lakes where there is a larger-than-usual quantity of fish. Such areas are often littered with fallen trees or sunken tree stumps and manmade creations such as brush piles, Christmas trees, rock piles etc. These all make up the category of fish structure. Other […]
Underground Stormwater Features – Out of Sight Often Means Out of Mind
If you have driven in Metro Atlanta lately, you surely know we have a LOT of people and not a lot of open space left anymore. For stormwater management, this has forced many developers to have to shift to underground best management features to free up valuable, useable space which your more standard detention ponds […]
Eutrophication – Is Your Lake “Over the Hill?”
Why is the lake greener than it used to be? Where did all this “pond-scum” come from? Why has the lake developed an odor? These may be questions that you have been pondering recently, and a potential answer to these questions is: eutrophication. From the Greek word meaning “well nourished”, eutrophication refers to the process […]
It’s a Dirty Job…
When our crews are out attending to day-to-day lake management and stormwater services they expect to take care of issues that are biological in nature, such as weed and algae control, pest control and debris removal from leaves and branches, but we are always amazed at the amount of man made trash that ends up […]
A Collection of Some Creepy Freshwater Dwellers …
Happy Halloween! We’re getting into the spooky spirit by looking at some scary freshwater animals. The Frankenfish (aka Snakehead Fish) It sounds like something spawned in a low-budget horror movie: an eel-like fish with sharp teeth, the ability to breathe air and move on land, and unpleasantly aggressive tendencies. But snakehead fish are neither Hollywood […]
The City of Atlanta Joins the Green Infrastructure Movement
Image credit: U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyIn February 2013, the City of Atlanta took a major step towards sustainability by updating its Post-Development Stormwater Management Ordinance to promote the use of Green Infrastructure on new and redevelopment projects in the City. The new ordinance requires new and redeveloped sites to treat the first inch of stormwater […]
What’s Good for the Goose . . .
Canada geese. Photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceAs the size of our region’s population of Canada geese has grown, a species that was once admired as majestic wildlife is now often viewed as a pest. Depending on size and water quality, a normal, healthy lake can sustain a waterfowl population of up to three […]
What’s Good for the Goose . . .
As the size of our region’s population of Canada geese has grown, a species that was once admired as majestic wildlife is now often viewed as a pest. Depending on size and water quality, a normal, healthy lake can sustain a waterfowl population of up to three to four birds per acre, but when the […]
Vegetarian Piranhas
Piranhas in Georgia? Well, yes, but not the man-eating type.
