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Clean Up

Keep It Clean!

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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.

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Clean-Up Request Form

The purpose of HLCL is to clean the lake of man-made debris and trash! HLCL contracts all the work out to an independent contractor that works a two-man crew! 

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If you are a homeowner on the lake, hire us to assist in cleaning your bank! Our crew cuts and stacks wood and removes old docks. We ask homeowners to burn any stacked wood on their property! This will help keep costs down. It also allows our crew to assist more homeowners. Also to help with the cost, we require more than one request in an area. Our crew cannot clear vegetation, including cutting down any trees that are standing, or assisting with the removal of any trees that have fallen above the high-water elevation (760').  We cannot touch an old dock that has broken loose unless the owner surrenders the dock to HLCL. If you have a neighbor and their dock is in disrepair, ask them to contact us. We are here to help keep the lake clean! You can find a clean-up request form online at www.hlcl.org or email at HLCLcleanup@gmail.com. 

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Use our independent contractor that will show up! We try to schedule based on more than one request in an area to help save costs. Our service area is from Bryant’s Camp to the dam and everything in between. You can complete our clean-up form on our new website @ www.hlcl.org.

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Thank You to our cleanup crew!

 

Our cleanup crew CANNOT respond to direct requests for assistance.

 

Please Do Not Litter!

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Additional Resources

If you need some additional resources, please don't hesitate to reach out to the following:

Boyle County Solid Waste Department

(859) 238-1116

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Garrard/Lincoln County Solid Waste Department

(859)326-1909 or
garrardlincolnsolidwaste@gmail.com

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Mercer County Solid Waste

(859)734-6310

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Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection

(502)564-3410 or (502)564-3358 for general complaints or concerns

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Environmental Response Team

(502)564-2380 or 1-800-928-2380 (24 hrs, 7days/week) for environmental emergencies, such as spills of oil, gas or other substances

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