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Old 04-29-2024, 01:13 PM
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Nothing can be done. If you get your irrigation water from a retention pond, you get all sorts of chemicals from that pond, not just immediate run off. Roads adjacent carry water off the street into the ponds. Hence, when those sprinklers turn on for your lawn, you get it all. Your lawn is doused in street run off, pesticide etc and there is no control on what you get on that grass of yours.
Personally I think that in the last 10 years there is MORE fertilizer run-off into the smaller drainage lakes. This causes MORE of the underwater grass (like fresh water seaweed) to grow than I remember from 10 years ago. Has anyone else come to that conclusion ?