Keep It Clean!

10 Ways to Help Keep Herrington Lake Clean​

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1. Pick up trash around the lake. Organize road or neighborhood cleanups.

2. Maintain your septic system, including tank pump-outs every 3 to 5 years.

3. Protect your shoreline with trees, shrubs and other vegetation.

4. Avoid new construction at or near the lakeshore to reduce erosion to lake.

5. Create contoured or curving pathways to the lake (rather than straight, downhill pathways).  This reduces storm water runoff and erosion.

6. Minimize boat wakes and slow down near shore.

7. Clear fallen trees (not living trees!) from the banks to prevent them from washing into the lake.

8. Don’t flush sewage from boats into the lake.  Use holding tanks and have them pumped out.

9. Minimize livestock access to the lake.  Also, clean up after your pets. Livestock manure and pet waste can run off into the lake, adding to nutrient and fecal contamination.

10. Report spills or trash dumping to local or state authorities.

 

HLCL has 4 dumpsters: 2 at Pandora and 1 at Kamp Kennedy, and 1 at Mid-lake for the use of disposing of man-made debris and trash from the lake.  Please note: cutting open foam loose in the water is not acceptable.

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