Lawns are more harmful to lakes than toxic substances or waste from individual sewage systems. Wherever there is a lawn, there is deforestation. The immune system of a lake is the forest that surrounds it. Of course, a healthy lake can make some allowances to satisfy some of our needs. Nevertheless, it cannot tolerate lawns along its shoreline or within its forestial border.
Lakes abhor all excesses created by humans.
Some cottagers adore their lawns. Whenever lawns are found along the shores of lakes, the results are felt in various ways such as warming of the water, over fertilization, increased water flow, erosion and biological desolation. Healthy green lawns have usually been sprayed with fertilizer. Unfortunately, a vast amount of this fertilizer gets washed into the lake by rainwater thus contributing to the over fertilization of the lake water. As a result, the aquatic plants begin to multiply at an excessively high rate.