Lakes-Ponds+Conservation

Welcome to The Lakes & Ponds Conservation Page Made By: Hannah Jones and Ryan Reeder

The government branch called EPA has a positive effect on lakes. EPA, or the Environmental Protection Agency, has started to improve and restore water bodies and watersheds (land between rivers where all the water underneath it drains into the river). They help improve soil conservations in watersheds and reduce soil that comes into lakes. They also help keep livestock waste and chemicals out of the lakes.

When it rains, the water runs down the land and into rivers, which flow into lakes. The problem with this is that as the water runs downhill, it picks up the fertilizers and pesticides on farms. This all runs down into the river and to the lakes. This causes alot of new growth in plants, which means more growth in bacteria, who eat the dead plant. Bacteria need oxygen to survive, and so do plants. If there are more plants and bacteria in a lake than usual, you do not have enough oxygen left for all of the fish. Some fish also suffer from tumors from the chemicals in the fertilizers and pesticides. Some ways to solve this are using organic fertilizer. This makes it so that the fertilizer that gets washed away does not cause abnormal growth to the pointwhere its overwhelming. It also allows that fish wont get tumors because there aren't any chemicals. Terrace farming also might help because it makes it so that not as much water goes into the river.

People have been dropping a lot of waste near lakes and on beaches. Unfortunately it is very common for people to drop all kinds of waste in the lake or on the beaches, from plastic to glass. The dropping of the waste hurts the lakes and people. It can cause toxic pollutions that will stay in the lake and would kill a ton of fish and maybe some people. When lakes like the Great Lakes are surrounded by land and a toxic pollution get in it, it will stay their for a very long time.

Welling and over pumping is another human made problem for lakes. Some lakes feed marshlands with their water. Over pumping water is a big problem around these areas. People will over pump the lakes water for their needs and kill off the marshlands also it lets non native plants and animals invade the marshlands. The over pumping will also lower the level of the lake and kill off fish too. Hannah Jones BiomesThird10 Lakes-Ponds Home Lakes-Ponds Facts Lakes-Ponds Fiction Lakes-Ponds Food Web Lakes-Ponds Bibliography