Effect OF Herbicides On Shoreline Erosion
Keeping healthy plants around stormwater ponds can completely eliminate erosion.
The plants around the waters edge act like filters and suck up excess nutrients from entering the ponds. Thus it is important to keep the plants around the water's edge alive, and not kill them with herbicides.
The Same company that sprays herbicides and causes erosion, is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix the erosion
It is important to limit herbicide usage and irrigation around the ponds. Herbicides kill the plant roots which prevent erosion. Excessive irrigation usage washes fertilizers into the pond and causes algal blooms. Excessive irrigation can erode the sandy Florida soil, causing either surface erosion or underground sinkholes.