Cass Lake Weed and Muck Removal

The weed that gets most Cass Lake owners on the phone is Eurasian milfoil, with curly leaf pondweed and starry stonewort right behind it. Zebra mussels have made the water clear enough that sunlight reaches the bottom of that shallow shelf, so the weeds come in thick and come in early. Our weed cutting and harvesting boat mows the mats off your frontage and hauls the cuttings out of the lake instead of leaving them to break loose, drift down to the sandbar and rot. For the milfoil that keeps coming back a few weeks after every cut, that is a root problem, and our root removal pulls the whole plant, root ball and all, out of the peat around your dock and swim area so it does not just spring back on you.

The muck is its own animal on Cass. The main basin is sand and marl, but the bays and the canals feeding toward Sylvan and Loon are pulpy peat, and decades of dead weed and leaves have settled into a soft black layer that swallows your foot to the ankle. Our muck removal and dredging work digs that organic sludge out of the canal ends, the back bays and the shallow boat wells and gives you firm bottom and real depth back where you actually use the water. If your kids will not swim off the dock because the bottom feels like pudding, that is the muck, and honestly that is the part of the job we like most.