What Color is Your Pond?
Do you own or manage a pond? Is it a farm pond, stormwater management pond, recreational pond or a landscaped pond? Regardless of its purpose, there are dozens of private ponds in the Buck and Doe Run Watershed and all of them are manmade. Ponds have a unique, and tempermental, ecology that can provide an amazingly diverse environmental ecosystem - or an incredibly frustrating problem. Numerous information and professional resources are now available to assist private pond owners with their pond management challenges. A few of those resources are listed below:
Chester County Water Resources Authority webpage hosts a website with several links to pond management resources. This site also provides a downloadable version of a 2-volume document prepared by West Chester University on pond management.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service webpage hosts numerous downloadable documents on various aspects of pond management.
The Pennsylvania Lake Management Society is an active, reliable resource of information on pond and lake management. PALMS is the local chapter of the National Lake Management Society, and can provide information and listings of professional consultants.
