mrfootball Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Interesting article about the growing business of pond/lake management. With the explosion of new waterfront and lake communities, the demand for services that keep these ponds clean and tidy has risen dramatically.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headli...iz/4907171.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Interesting. I prefer my ponds the old fashioned way -- low, mucky, and bursting with frogs and dragonflies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 editor:Interesting. I prefer my ponds the old fashioned way -- low, mucky, and bursting with frogs and dragonflies. Yuck, not me. I always imagine something else being down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Interesting. I prefer my ponds the old fashioned way -- low, mucky, and bursting with frogs and dragonflies.Me too. But, doesn't this article remind you of the Galveston Beach thread, where some do not like what nature has done on its own, and suggest "enhancements", so that it "looks better"? While creating dual use projects, such as making floodwater retention ponds that also function as fishing ponds is admirable, and welcomed, it is a bit sad that they must dye the water so that it "looks like" the kind of lake we like. Will we soon begin practicing eugenics on nature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Interesting. I prefer my ponds the old fashioned way -- low, mucky, and bursting with frogs and dragonflies.I have to agree. The ponds need to be somewhat natural, frogs and dragonflies help keep the mosquitoes in check and serve as enough of a "yuck" factor for kids to want to play at the edge. Also, i can serve as a way to keep flooding under control. What I find interesting (and this should be under another topic) is the city's "Reforestation" projects in various parts of the city including the Will Clayton. Should be interesting to watch that grow over the next few decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownCoog Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I've never seen a tidy-bowl colored fake lake. Must be a Sugar Land thing.And FWIW, the trees on Will Clayton are looking great. They even have soakers hoses on them, not that we have needed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimberlySayWhat Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Remember all of Astroworld's "tidy bowl" colored water features? The one at the Gunslinger comes to mind. Its artificial blue water with paper cups and burgers floating around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfootball Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 That lake near the Transco Tower right off the feeder has that "tidy bowl" look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westguy76 Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 That lake near the Transco Tower right off the feeder has that "tidy bowl" look. last time i was there i saw a women washing her kids underwear in it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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