I asked about the "floating" island at maintenance and was told it is multipurpose. It is a safe area for birds, and gators, it is attractive, and importantly it has the plant life which extracts nutrients from the pond which helps to reduce algae blooms and unwanted effects of the pollution from ground water runoff containing fertilizers and pesticides. Don't know if it is true, but that's what I was told. I was asking about adding more islands and was told no, the island size is based on the lake size and its benefit is related to the ratio of island mass to water mass. Sounded good
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