Fertilizer and Pesticide Issues
Green Lawn Green Lake
Above algal blooms were photographed by underwater divers off Bolton. Algae species can be analyzed to better understand the source of pollution. Fertilizer on our lawns seeps into groundwater and eventually enters our drinking water.
Harmful Effects
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Assembly Point Water Quality Coalition members have been strong advocates of local and lakewide fertilizer restriction ordinances. In 2012, the Town of Queensbury erected signs for North Queensbury restricting fertilizer/pesticide to a 50 ft setback from shorelines. Residents support a change of the word shorelines to waterbodies. The Town of Lake George passed this enhanced revision in spring of 2014. The aim is to create a uniform lakewide ordinance restricting fertilizer use close to wetlands, stream corridors and lakes in the Lake Champlain - Lake George basin. See below film on fertilizer/ pesticide impact on waterbodies: |
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To the left, you can open up the Adirondack Lawn Press Release, which was originally designed and distributed by the Hague Water Quality Awareness Committee. Small triangular signs (see below) support a lake wide effort towards a uniform fertilizer restriction law.
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These signs declare that a property owner is not using pesticides or fertilizers and is participating in a lake wide effort to create a uniform Lake George Park Basin fertilizer restriction law.
"Adirondack Lawn Grows Here-no fertilizer, no pesticides"
