Originally Posted By: catmandoo
I agree about the bloom. I go past our local hospital several times a week and it drives me crazy. They have a number of beautiful ponds -- and golf-course quality lawns. More than likely all of the fertilizer that is keeping the grass beautiful is keeping the pond very green, and frequently full of filamentous algae. The only real way to control this is to limit the fertilizer runoff into the pond, or to get lots of plants in the pond to take up the fertilizer nutrients.


Or add dye and throw expensive chemicals at the pond that may not be conducive to fish and just treat the symptoms. At least that is what I see a lot of corporate ponds do.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.