{"id":5734,"date":"2016-10-20T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T14:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/?p=5734"},"modified":"2018-10-12T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:41:15","slug":"leaves-a-falling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/2016\/10\/20\/leaves-a-falling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaves a Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-the-lake1.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3858\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-the-lake1.gif\" alt=\"love-the-lake\" width=\"100\" height=\"108\"><\/a>By: Tim Langer \u2013 Lake Management Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fall in Northeast Ohio offers many beautiful and vibrant colors along the tree line.&nbsp; Often those colors create a scene that could easily be mistaken for paint on a canvas.&nbsp; Soon those beautiful colors paint the ground and so begins the yearly labors of picking up leaves before the first snow blows.<\/p>\n<p>Some residents may be inclined to simply blow their leaves into the lake or culverts.&nbsp; When leaves are blown into the lake, the leaves accumulate on the water surface, especially in the backs of coves and along certain areas of our shoreline.&nbsp; As the leaves begin to decompose, the leaves will accumulate on the lake bottom around docks and places where people swim and fish.&nbsp;&nbsp; The decomposition of the leaves is what eats up dissolved oxygen (DO), which degrades water quality.&nbsp; It makes for a very rotten, squishy, unpleasant lake bottom.<\/p>\n<p>The decomposition of those leaves in the lake contributes to;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The depletion of dissolved oxygen (DO).<\/li>\n<li>Nutrient overloading, which later leads to algae blooms.<\/li>\n<li>Filling in of lake and cove areas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What <strong>YOU <\/strong>can do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not blow leaves or grass clippings into the culverts, street or lake.<\/li>\n<li>Mulch your leaves when mowing. Mowing more often will make it easier on you and allow your mulching mower to do the hard work.&nbsp; Think of the mulched leaves as tea leaves.&nbsp; When they are mulched into small pieces, the nutrients can be extracted much easier by water or rain and feed the soil reducing the need to use commercial fertilizer.&nbsp; And it\u2019s free!<\/li>\n<li>Bag your leaves each fall before they blow into the lake.<\/li>\n<li>USE our COMPOST SITE. This is a great Roaming Shores resource! (keys available at the RRA office for property owners)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the help of all our residents and continuing to act a stewards of Lake Roaming Rock, our combined efforts will continue to maintain and improve our water quality.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to Love the Lake and Be Lake Responsible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Tim Langer \u2013 Lake Management Committee Fall in Northeast Ohio offers many beautiful and vibrant colors along the tree line.&nbsp; Often those colors create a scene that could easily be mistaken for paint on a canvas.&nbsp; Soon those beautiful colors paint the ground and so begins the yearly labors of picking up leaves before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/2016\/10\/20\/leaves-a-falling-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaves a Falling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lake-management-articles","category-sediment-control-sub-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}