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From Seth Gade, Senior Aquatic Manager

On this day of "GREEN" skip the blarney and go with the tried and true natural products to get your pond off to a good start. Start the season off with a "shot" of enzymes to wake up the pond and kick start the biological activity. Apply granular alg...

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From Seth Gade, Senior Aquatic Manager

The 2010 season is coming to an end. Hopefully you were happy with the way your pond looked this season. If you saw more growth than usual of aquatic vegetation and/or algae, try not to worry, you were not alone. A lot of ponds were harder to manage ...

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From Seth Gade, Senior Aquatic Manager

The biologists at WLPR have been busy treating ponds for algae and Sago Pondweed. Given the unseasonably warm spring, most ponds are growing unsightly amounts of algae. To combat the large algae blooms, we have been applying bacteria and enzyme mixtu...

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Cory Zickert, WLPR Owner and Senior Aquatic Manager

Thanks to all the people that roughed the weather for pond days. We had a great turn out and enjoyed discussing "pond scum" with all of you. We are well underway for treating Curly-leaf pondweed. Eurasian watermilfoil has been detected at various sta...

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From Phil, Fisheries Management Biologist

As the water temperatures begin to warm customers should begin to notice more activity from their fish. WLPR biologists have been noticing an increased fish activity in the last few days. Largemouth bass and bluegills have been seen in the shallows p...

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