Useful Pond Info
Amazing Stats: April 22, 2019
Did you know the body of a tilapia is .008% phosphorus and .02% nitrogen?
To date, 15,575 pounds of breeding tilapia have been harvested from our lakes. The cost to remove the 124.6 pounds of phosphorus and 311.5 pounds of nitrogen by other means would have been $300 per pound for phosphorus and $150-200 per pound for nitrogen. By harvesting tilapia, EVMA has removed $84,105 - $99,680 of nutrients from the ponds at NO cost.
The folowing links are PDF
March 2019 How to Proactively Manage Your Water Body
January 2019 How Many Ducks are too Many Ducks?
December 2018 Beneficial Vegetation
November 2018 Fall is Here and Midge Flies are Swarming
October 2018 Retention Pond as Ecosystem
September 2018 Five Reasons to Aerate
August 2018 Questions About Ponds
July 2018 Fertilizer and Things to Avoid
June 2018 Morning Spent Helping the Bay
May 2018 Preserve FAQs
April 2018 Living with Alligators
March 2018 Fish Kills
February 2018 Fishing
January 2018 Bad Plants
December 2017 Water Lilies
November 2017 Littoral Zones
October 2017 Mother Nature Likes a Messy Home
September 2017 Aerators, Fountains & Lake Oxygen
August 2017 Algae Management
July 2017 Lakes are not Swimming Pools
May 2017 Detention vs. Retention
April 2017 There is No Poop Fairy
March 17 2017 What Lies Beneath the Surface of the EVMA Retention Ponds?
February 2017 Why Fish the Tilapia from Our Lakes?
Did you know the body of a tilapia is .008% phosphorus and .02% nitrogen?
To date, 15,575 pounds of breeding tilapia have been harvested from our lakes. The cost to remove the 124.6 pounds of phosphorus and 311.5 pounds of nitrogen by other means would have been $300 per pound for phosphorus and $150-200 per pound for nitrogen. By harvesting tilapia, EVMA has removed $84,105 - $99,680 of nutrients from the ponds at NO cost.
The folowing links are PDF
March 2019 How to Proactively Manage Your Water Body
January 2019 How Many Ducks are too Many Ducks?
December 2018 Beneficial Vegetation
November 2018 Fall is Here and Midge Flies are Swarming
October 2018 Retention Pond as Ecosystem
September 2018 Five Reasons to Aerate
August 2018 Questions About Ponds
July 2018 Fertilizer and Things to Avoid
June 2018 Morning Spent Helping the Bay
May 2018 Preserve FAQs
April 2018 Living with Alligators
March 2018 Fish Kills
February 2018 Fishing
January 2018 Bad Plants
December 2017 Water Lilies
November 2017 Littoral Zones
October 2017 Mother Nature Likes a Messy Home
September 2017 Aerators, Fountains & Lake Oxygen
August 2017 Algae Management
July 2017 Lakes are not Swimming Pools
May 2017 Detention vs. Retention
April 2017 There is No Poop Fairy
March 17 2017 What Lies Beneath the Surface of the EVMA Retention Ponds?
February 2017 Why Fish the Tilapia from Our Lakes?