Easy Steps Homeowners Can Take To Improve Their Neighborhood Waterways [344]

Knowing how to contribute to your neighborhood as a homeowner can sometimes be difficult; here are some easy ways to get involved while improving your property value.
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One of the easiest things you can do as a homeowners group or a community to start combatting things like shoreline erosion and the nutrients and pollutants going into your pond is the implementation of a low maintenance zone. A low maintenance zone is simply an area around your pond where you're not mowing the grass down, not shaving it down to the dirt line, you’re not weed eating down to the water level. What you’re doing is allowing the growth around the pond to get taller and longer a little bit so that it has more, so that the root system on the plants has a better capability of holding the pond bank together and minimizing that erosion.