Negative Effects of Dumping Landscape Material in Pond

Landscaping can be a nonstop job for people who have taken an interest in really making the area around their house look great.  Tree and yard scraps, trimmings from bushes and leaves during the fall all add up to one big pile of landscaping scraps that people may not know what to do with.  Disposing of landscaping scraps can vary on when or whether or not the city takes responsibility in picking them up and getting rid of them.  Whether this is or is not the case, one place landscaping scraps should never end up is in a pond.  It may seem that getting the scraps out of sight will result in them being out of mind, but for pond owners the opposite is true.

Landscaping scraps are just the organic material that overtime will break down and build up as muck in the bottom of a pond.  This is basically the beginning of pond muck.  Pond muck starts as organic material, such as grass clippings or leaves and overtime turns into the thick sludge that can cover the bottom of a beautiful pond.  Pond muck is not something that anybody wants to deal with when enjoying a pond.  Remember to properly dispose of landscaping scraps and don’t help pond muck take over a pond.

For any more questions on disposing landscaping scraps or how pond muck is created please contact Sanco Industries today.