A few weeks ago, Gossips reported on the beginning of the experiment to arrest the growth of unwanted vegetation in Oakdale Lake by floating bags of barley straw in the lake. This week, the application of barley straw was completed. On Tuesday, Jim McDarby, who teaches biology at Hudson High School, worked with students from Hudson High and ecologists from Great Ecology to pack about forty pounds of barley straw into onion bags and suspend them in the lake.
More information about the Oakdale Lake Water Quality Project can be found on the Great Ecology website.
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Photographs accompanying this post courtesy Tamar Adler, Friends of Oakdale Lake
If you dare to go swimming in Oakdale and don't get tangled up in the barley balls and/or electrocuted by the electric wires powering the 4 aerators submerged in the lake (also trying to heal the lake), you just might have a pleasant swim.
ReplyDeleteIll be interested to see if the barley straw does anything. I tried this a few years ago in my pond without sucess.
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