The increasing number of people using lakes and living near ponds has brought about a boost in the amount of nutrients and sediments that get washed into watersheds and polluting lakes. Dirt run off, waste and fertilizer actually washes into ponds and watersheds and thus reducing the O2 levels, increasing the temperature of water, fish kills, nasty smells, dangerous germs, weeds and algae blooms. For lake restoration purposes, it is necessary that the lake assimilate the tons of nutrients that it gets. The only way to attain this is to decrease the nutrient levels entering the lake water, unearthing any muck that is stuck at the bottom if that’s feasible, and using a variety of aerators and beneficial germs that help the water body to self clean itself by reintroducing back oxygen and breaking down the gunk at the bottom of the pond.

It’s a well reported fact that a healthy and normal lake has the capacity to clean itself up by the use of living microorganisms within its own ecosystem. At the bottom of the pond’s food cycle is where you find advantageous aerobic germs that consume nutrients. Any pond has one such system and the fact is that it will work effectively, until something will trigger it to be ineffective and that something is usually represented by a frustrating number of contamination and nutrients that will detrimentally influence the food chain. In the event of this happening, weeds and algae manage and the lake starts a procedure of a slow-moving death.

While dead weeds and algae will wind up decomposing at the pond bottom, it winds up including even more nutrients into the water. The resultant of this is the reducing of oxygen at the bottom and this then becomes to be the ideal atmosphere enabling fresh algae to bloom. In these cases it seems that there are lots of people who will actually like to make use of various solutions and add herbicides and chemicals in the water so that the weeds are killed quickly. However this could additionally lead to the problem of the increased decomposing of vegetation that gathers at the bottom of the pond which in turn further decreases the pond’s oxygen levels.

Not to mention the fact that these herbicides and chemicals are damaging to the fish living in the pond.

A much better, more reliable and environmentally friendly option for lake restoration is to enhance the dissolved oxygen levels in the lake and to promote the aerobic decomposition of nutrients with large pond fountains. Using a lot of lake aerator units together with the introduction of aerobic germs helps in the quicker decomposition of natural waste and sediments and also quickens the process of self cleaning.

With that being said, if aerobic conditions are present at the lake’s bottom, weeds and algae won’t be able to grow anymore and the food cycle will be restored.

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