Lake Martin Topics: Not sure I'm qualified
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MythBuster
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Not sure I'm qualified
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9/4/2007 4:12:54 PM
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But I'll at least offer my opinions.
First, I think it's obvious why you see more growth in front of the landscaped areas: fertilizer run-off. The nice lawns, ornamental flowers, and so on come with a price: they are usually heavily fertilized. And that fertilizer eventually runs off the lawns and into the lake. Now that there's no lake there, the fertilizer just runs onto the shore, creating very fertile areas for these new plants to grow.
Whether these new growths are problematic, I don't know. In some cases, I could see them as a definite benefit: the roots stabilize the soil, thereby strengthening the shoreline. And I would think that there is an added ecological benefit for the animals that will use them as food and shelter, both now, and when they are (eventually, we hope) under water.
I also think that fertilizer causing new plants to grow on the beach is much better than fertilizer causing an algae bloom; a friend who studies such things for a living assures me that a massive algae bloom in Lake Martin is one of those "not if but when" things. And he feels the same way about non-native aquatic plants, because so many people now use their boats in so many different bodies of water.
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