Assessing Your Lot
Naturalize Your Lot: A Guide to Lake Friendly Landscaping
Identify areas where you can make changes on your property to help prevent pollutants from entering Pigeon Lake and help reduce the frequency and intensity of algal blooms.
PLWA Clean Runoff Opportunities
Clean Runoff Property Assessment
The PLWA team offers a property consultation service for property owners in the Pigeon Lake watershed. Step one, make an appointment with PLWA staff to complete a Clean Runoff Property Assessment. PLWA staff will meet with you for a tour of your property and provide recommendations regarding clean runoff practices.
The assessment focuses on the following five areas of a naturalized landscape:
1. Minimizing Your Footprint, 2. Planting for the lake, 3. Living Alongside Wildlife; 4. Preventing the Spread of Invasive Species, 5. Protecting the Shoreline. Skip section five if you are not on the shoreline.
The result will highlight where, why and how you can include beneficial management practices in your landscape design. This project aims to support resilience of the land to prevent floods and droughts, slow and filter runoff into Pigeon Lake, reduce the intensity and frequency of algal blooms, and improve biodiversity.
PLWA Clean Runoff Property Assessment Tool
References
NH Lakes, LakeSmart: A Lake-Friendly Living Program. 2020. https://nhlakes.org/lakesmart/ [modified with permissions]