WhatPond Helps Promote the 22nd Annual Secchi Dip-in with Donation Madison, WI – May 2015 – WhatPond, a leading provider of pond information and tools, is giving back with a donation of ten Compact Secchi Disks to the Secchi Dip-in. The Dip-in is a program of the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) that gathers […]
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I wasn’t sure I should post this here, but I know I had did post with the boys introduction at some point on the site. They are as much a part as we are. Every evening when we fed fish, had a camp fire or simple went to walk around the pond checking them out
Spring is hopefully here, at least it is warming up, buds on the trees and the grass is turning green. I guess the bummer part is the grass is growing too which means we’ll have to mow it eventually, bummer on that part. With the days getting longer and temperatures warmer the pond water is
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Spring has arrived, at least on the calendar it shows spring is here. After what seems like another long cold and lots of snow winter it good to know it’s almost over. (video at bottom) After seeing and plowing snow almost every day, to waiting for the temperature to rise above zero it seems like
What a winter again this year without much of an end in sight. At first I was hoping for a light winter as we have had in the past but after last year with the Polar Vortex making a couple rounds we are at least not that cold this year so far. Still dipping in
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Water is awesome, not only does it sustain life but is used for so many things in life. From drinking water to food manufacturing, putting out fires and cooling in nuclear plants. Dams built for power generation so we can use our computers and light to irrigation for crops to feed us. Water for the
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This will not be a traditional Christmas Eve for Erie County. Southerly down sloping winds will ramp up during the day followed by a major high wind event from about 8 PM Wednesday through perhaps 3 AM Christmas morning before slowly subsiding. Please secure anything outdoors such as Christmas decorations early today. If traveling to
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What a year, well at least it seems we got through it ok for now. With a long winded winter and wet spring dragging into summer we were able to get things done in and around our ponds and more importantly helping those of you be email and our local pond owners with the help
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Planning a pond or lake means preparing and planning for the 100 year rain storm. The what if scenario of bad weather, rain storms , snow melt even hurricanes can provide such an abundance of water that the pond system may not be able to handle the in coming water, down pipe or even your
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Here we go with the first snow fall on the pond of 2014, just getting started and more to come. All the ponds are ready for winter with fountains cleaned, prepped and stored away. The aeration systems are ready as well with moving the diffusers to shallow water to keep a hole in the ice
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