A green lawn means a green lake for Lake Rosalind residents.
That’s the finding of a Ministry of Environment Water Quality Assessment Study on the small inland lake.
Brockton Councillor Chris Peabody says the study confirms the need to ban the use of all fertilizers at Lake Rosalind.
The Ministry study concluded that Lake Rosalind’s blue green algae problem is directly linked to lawn fertilizers.
All in all the lake is in fairly good shape.
The marl in the lake water has created a healthy PH balance which prohibits an overgrowth of blue green algae.
However lawn fertilizers, pesticides and household cleaners upset this PH balance and contribute to the blue green algae overgrowth problem that has occurred in the past.
Over the last year Lake residents had to endure a few Do Not Drink the Water Advisories due to the blue green algae problem.
Peabody says Brockton is now going to draft its own Fertilizer Ban bylaw in an attempt to correct the problem.
The bylaw will be ready for Spring.
Peabody who is also a Lake Rosalind property owner, says if residents want to keep their lake beautiful than they’ll have to adhere to the new rules.
The Ministry Study concludes that it is critical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides are not used on lake property.
A few years ago, Brockton banned the use of all pesticides and fertilizers at the lakes. However this bylaw was quashed after the province came out with it’s own pesticide legislation.
Brockton’s ban on fertilizers does not fall under the province’s pesticide legislation.
