How "Mandatory" Overgrowth Helped Save this HOA's Ponds [409]
Channel: Science and Environment Council
Date: 23/04/2021

By making low-maintenance zones mandatory around Rivendell's ponds, pond health got significantly better!

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So in the end, the idea of having a mandatory low maintenance zone around each of our ponds was pitched to the board as an essential kind of action to protect the stormwater management system in the community. That is an obligation of the board, to protect the functionality of the pond. And so that was really the critical way in which we moved this forward. And in addition to the avoidance of substantial cost in the future to do any kind of remediation.