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Send us a photo of your project or a photo of interest. Just e-mail your digital photos in JPG (No greater than 650 pixels width and 150 pixels resolution). Be sure to include the date, a description, and where the photos were taken. We’ll post it as soon as we can. Your photo may be on the web a week or a month, but hundreds will see what you are accomplishing for the good of your lake! We’ll change photos periodically as new submissions come in.

SEEING ‘RED’ OVER PURPLE —Alan Lefevre, Right, Lake Gage and Lime Lake Association, takes matters seriously in removing Purple Loosestrife near the Lake Gage inlet. Each plant can produce two million seeds plus.
Left, AN ‘AQUA DAM’ is used to seal a levee breach protecting nearly 300 acres of wetlands at Chapman Lakes. About 50-60 gallons per minute were flowing through the breach and threatening to cause the entire levee to fail. Chapman Lakes levels could also drop two to four feet in what Division of Water engineers said would be an environmental disaster. The entire levee is to be replaced later.

ON-SITE DISPOSAL—Pictured above is a typical constructed wetland disposal, an acceptable kind of project that could be funded by an ILMS small grant. Photo submitted by Greg Bright.

DRAIN RECONSTRUCTION—The photo above shows the bioengineered reconstruction of Mud Creek outlet into Big Turkey Lake, Steuben County.—Submitted by John Richardson.

POLLUTION CONTROLS—Above is the outfall structure of a
sediment trap/wetland filter completed in April 2004 on the Shanton Arm of Elder Ditch, a primary tributary and major polluter of Ridinger Lake and the Barbee chain of lakes, Kosciusko County. Submitted
by John Richardson.

CARP BARRIER—
Old bridge support, right, holds a barrier in a Lake Gage tributary to prevent carp migration. A Division of Water permit was required to control the fish.-Submitted by Scott Banfield.