Lake Drawdown

• Kill inva­sive aquat­ic plants that grow in shal­low water.
• Pre­vent ice damage.
• Allow shore­line access for repair­ing retain­ing walls, docks, and gen­er­al debris clean up.
• Reg­u­late flow and water stor­age, which helps in the man­age­ment of down­stream flooding.
• Improve the habi­tat for fish.
• Pro­tect the shore­line from win­ter erosion.
• Lim­it ice dam­age to docks and load­ing ramps.
• Allow home­own­ers on the lake­front to clean up debris, cut inva­sive phrag­mites, make repairs to walls and docks, and begin new con­struc­tion projects.

The draw­down is tar­get­ed in the lit­toral zone as not­ed below in this illus­tra­tion.  This will kill any weeds grow­ing in this area with the prop­er tem­per­a­tures for freez­ing in the winter.