Potter Lake Workday this Sunday, November 13!
Nick Benson
An effort is materializing to get some aquatic vegetation off of potter
lake this weekend. We need as many people as we can get to help out
this *Sunday,
November 13th from 10am-2pm*. We'll have two boats and lots of trasbags to
collect the vegetation. We could collect 100's if not 1,000's of pounds
of aquatic vegetation which would otherwise die and sink to the bottom of
Potter Lake where it would release their stored nutrients back into the
lake water.
So Why help out? The dredging that was done removed the accumulated dead
plant material that was feeding food into the lake water and produce the
green scum on the lake surface you might have seen last year. Potter Lake
is primarily an autochthonous (fed from internal sources) system as opposed
to an allochthonous system which receives food from outside. Outside, in
the case of Potter Lake, includes its small watershed, stormwater runoff
from Jayhawk Blvd. Memorial Drive and JRP parking area plus the water
drained from the Chi Omega fountain when that occurs. In order to slow the
return of the surface scum to the lake and sustain the water quality of
Potter Lake, the more aquatic vegetation we remove the better!
Please RSVP to cmcc...@ku.edu if you can make it out this Sunday. Thank
you for your time and support!
Cheers,
Celeste McCoy
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Celeste McCoy
Potter Lake Project Head Coordinator
cmcc...@ku.edu