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Dear homeowners, projects in the works and completed:

 

6/16/2010 Pond # 1 Update:

I would like to give everyone a brief description of what has been done 

with pond #1. On April 1st blue dye was added to all three ponds and has 

been added every Month since the first application. The blue dye is 

suppose to help keep the alge and weeds from growing.

Also on April 1st I did the first shock treatment. I also did a 2nd 

shock treatment on May 1st. Normally only one shock treatment is done.

On May 15th I did the 1st regular treatment with a clarifier and 

digester. This treatment kills the nutrients in the pond that the alge 

and weeds needs to grow. I did a 2nd treatment on June 1st, two weeks 

ahead of time but the alge and weeds keep growing.

We can try a chemical treatment but the last time we did that it did 

nothing, we still had a bad alge problem.

Last year I went to a pond seminar with the DEC and here is what they 

had to say about why everyone is having these problems and their 

suggestions.

    	1) Leaves in the ponds puts nutrients into the water that is 

counteracting with any treatments. I talked to the town of Chili and 

they agreed to bring in their equipment and scrape the bottom where the 

leaves get in.

    	2) Geese have been a big problem anywhere there is water. As anyone 

who walks around the ponds can see they dump a lot of crap in and around 

the ponds. Again this also adds nutrients to the water that helps the 

alge and weeds grow.

 	3) Fertilizer is also a big problem. All the fertilizer that that 

people put on their lawns eventually leaches into the ponds helping the 

weed and alge growth. We could have the DEC prevent everyone in 

Wellington from using fertilizer.

One of the suggestions from the DEC were to not cut the grass around the 

pond. They say by letting the grass grow will eventually cause the geese 

to go elsewhere because the geese land in the water then walk out of the 

pond but if the grass is tall there they won't be able to get out of the 

pond and eventually they will not come back.

That give you an idea of what has been done this year.

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Some other approaches that have been tried.