Talk:What can we do to help the Lake?/@comment-3064498-20110806145204

WHAT NOT TO DO! - fertilize your lawn - the phosphates run right into the water in front of your beach contributing to the bloom of blue green algae. -run grey water past your septic system - wherever it runs, it will eventually end up in the water in front of your beach with phosphates and other nutrients that are perfect to develop an algae bloom and toxins. - pour paints, oils, caustic substances into a drainage ditch, your septic system, the bust...it will eventually make its way into the lake. -fertilize your garden or farm fields with chemicals. Without miles of cattails to clean out the water before it reaches the lake, it will only contribute to the increase of algae and blooms at the mouth and down stream from where the creek enters the lake. - remove cattails, water plants, shoreline bushes as these act to retain our shoreline and leach out phosphates and other nutrients that otherwise will support algae blooms. - wash yourself, or your pets in the lake. - wash yourself in a sauna unless it drains into your septic system. Nutrients wash directly into the lake eventually. Saunas were never made for soap! - ignore maintenance on your septic system. They have a life of around 20 years even with good maintenance. - dump garbage into the lake - ever! - exhaust boat toilets into the lake - ever! - complain about higher taxes when some of those taxes go to maintaining an efficient lagoon system. - create wakes within 100 feet of shoreline. this is the law in Ontario even though there are few signs posted. Wakes contribute to the erosion of the lake shore.

We have spent many years doing the don'ts and the lake has about had it!!

anyone else have a 'don't' that I missed?