'Keeping it Blue': A look at the Water Alliance's 2021 plans for preserving Geneva Lake
Tom Nickols and Charles Colman
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In 2020, the Water Alliance used funds from a DNR Healthy Lakes grant to plant buffer strips like this at Buena Vista homeowner’s association to trap pollutants before they enter the lake.
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Left: A degraded Geneva Lake shoreline, which allows soil and runoff from fertilizers, pet waste and other pollutants to enter the lake. Right: Bare areas like this one in at a homeowner’s association park, will be transformed into rain gardens that absorb pollutants with a $24,000 DNR Healthy Lakes grant received by the Water Alliance this year.
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Bare areas like this one in at a homeowner’s association park, will be transformed into rain gardens that absorb pollutants with a $24,000 DNR Healthy Lakes grant received by the Water Alliance this year.
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Tom Nickols and Charles Colman are co-chairs of the Water Alliance for Preserving Geneva Lake. The award-winning “Keeping It Blue” column features guest authors from the Alliance reporting on various issues that impact the health of Geneva Lake and its watershed. The column appears periodically May through October. If you have questions regarding the Alliance’s plans or programs, please send them to ccolman01@charter.net or glc@genevalakeconservancy.org
In 2020, the Water Alliance used funds from a DNR Healthy Lakes grant to plant buffer strips like this at Buena Vista homeowner’s association to trap pollutants before they enter the lake.
Left: A degraded Geneva Lake shoreline, which allows soil and runoff from fertilizers, pet waste and other pollutants to enter the lake. Right: Bare areas like this one in at a homeowner’s association park, will be transformed into rain gardens that absorb pollutants with a $24,000 DNR Healthy Lakes grant received by the Water Alliance this year.
Bare areas like this one in at a homeowner’s association park, will be transformed into rain gardens that absorb pollutants with a $24,000 DNR Healthy Lakes grant received by the Water Alliance this year.
