Our Pond and Lake Management Division offers a wide variety of biological services to optimize your pond or lake, whether for ecosystem management, recreational, or aesthetic purposes.
Services Include:
- Water Quality Sampling and Analysis
a. In situ testing
b. Chemical and Nutrient Analyses
c. Irrigation and Livestock Watering Suitability Analyses
- Algae/Aquatic Weed Identification and Control
a. Virginia and Maryland Certified Pesticide Applicators on staff
b. Environmentally friendly dyes and biological water quality augmentation products
- Wildlife and Habitat Enhancement
a. Fish Habitat Structures
b. Island Creation
c. Wetland Plantings
- Fisheries Services
a. Electro-fishing
b. Population Surveys - Our custom built 20-foot electrofishing boat allows us to sample the abundance and diversity of fishes in your pond or lake. This information can be used to provide recommendations to improve your sport fishing opportunities.
c. Fish Stocking - We can stock your pond with many different species of native fishes, such as largemouth bass, sunfishes, black crappie, channel catfish, and fathead minnows. We can also obtain the proper permit to stock triploid grass carp for aquatic weed control. For your small pond or water garden, we stock decorative species such as shubunkin and koi.
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