Maintaining Your Lagoon

• Maintain a three- to five-foot (3'-5') water depth in the lagoon. Be sure to keep the inlet pipe covered with water in freezing weather.

• Maintain short-rooted, sod-forming perennial grass cover on dikes (such as Bermuda, fescue, or buffalo grass), and mow regularly.

• Keep weeds and trees out of lagoon and off dikes. Control aquatic weeds.

• Do not allow trees within fifty feet (50') of lagoon, and keep small bushes and shrubs trimmed to less than ten feet (10') tall.

• Do not allow animals within the lagoon fence. This includes ducks, geese, goats, dogs, and other animals.

• Maintain a four-foot (4') high, welded or woven wire fence, with openings no larger than four inches by six inches (4" x 6").

• Keep the gate on the fence padlocked.

• Do not alter established dike slopes.

• Do not install a water well for any purpose within one hundred (100) feet of the lagoon.

• Do not allow overflow or discharge from the lagoon.

• Do not dispose of any waste other than residential sewage in the lagoon. This includes trash, salvage material, paint, oil, gasoline, pesticides, or other hazardous materials.

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