{"id":8093,"date":"2018-10-12T11:39:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2018-10-12T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:39:31","slug":"leaves-a-falling-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/2018\/10\/12\/leaves-a-falling-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaves a Falling 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-the-lake1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3858\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fall in Northeast Ohio offers many beautiful and vibrant colors along\n the tree line.\u00a0 Often those colors create a scene that could easily be \nmistaken for paint on a canvas.\u00a0 Soon those beautiful colors paint the \nground and so begins the yearly labors of picking up leaves before the \nfirst snow blows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some residents may be inclined to simply blow their leaves into the \nlake or culverts.\u00a0 When leaves are blown into the lake, the leaves \naccumulate on the water surface, especially in the backs of coves and \nalong certain areas of our shoreline.\u00a0 As the leaves begin to decompose,\n the leaves will accumulate on the lake bottom around docks and places \nwhere people swim and fish.\u00a0\u00a0 The decomposition of the leaves is what \neats up dissolved oxygen (DO), which degrades water quality.\u00a0 It makes \nfor a very rotten, squishy, unpleasant lake bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decomposition of those leaves in the lake contributes to;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The depletion of dissolved oxygen (DO).<\/li><li>Nutrient overloading, which later leads to algae blooms.<\/li><li>Filling in of lake and cove areas.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What <strong>YOU <\/strong>can do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Not blow leaves or grass clippings into the culverts, street or lake.<\/li><li>Mulch your leaves when mowing. Mowing more often will make it easier\n on you and allow your mulching mower to do the hard work.\u00a0 Think of the\n mulched leaves as tea leaves.\u00a0 When they are mulched into small pieces,\n the nutrients can be extracted much easier by water or rain and feed \nthe soil reducing the need to use commercial fertilizer.\u00a0 And it\u2019s free!<\/li><li>Bag your leaves each fall before they blow into the lake.<\/li><li>USE our COMPOST SITE. This is a great Roaming Shores resource!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With the help of all our residents and continuing to act a stewards \nof Lake Roaming Rock, our combined efforts will continue to maintain and\n improve our water quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Remember to Love the Lake and Be Lake Responsible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall in Northeast Ohio offers many beautiful and vibrant colors along the tree line.\u00a0 Often those colors create a scene that could easily be mistaken for paint on a canvas.\u00a0 Soon those beautiful colors paint the ground and so begins the yearly labors of picking up leaves before the first snow blows. Some residents may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/2018\/10\/12\/leaves-a-falling-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaves a Falling 2018&#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":[11,31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-lake-management-articles","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093","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=8093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roamingshores.org\/RRA1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}