White Lake Weed and Muck Removal

White Lake fights the same two invaders as most of the lakes around here. Eurasian milfoil has been in this water for years, the tall stringy stuff that tops out at the surface and grabs your lower unit. On top of that the lake has starry stonewort, a nasty grassy weed that builds dense mats on the bottom and has pretty much elbowed the milfoil into a standoff. The lake already runs a township Improvement Board and a special assessment that pays for lake wide chemical treatment through the season, and that program does real work knocking the growth back. What the spray does not do is clear the dead stuff off your bottom or dig the roots out from under your dock. That is the part we handle.

Cutting and harvesting is the fast fix. We run a machine through the beds along your frontage and in the canals, cut the weed down below the surface, and haul it off the lake instead of letting it drift back and rot on the shore. Root removal is the longer play. Milfoil and starry stonewort both grow back from what is left in the sediment, so we pull the whole plant, roots and all, off the bottom so that patch stays open instead of filling back in by August. Then there is the muck. When starry stonewort and the rest of the weed dies off it settles into soft black muck that swallows your feet at the swim area and chokes the mouth of the canals. We dredge that out, get you down to firm bottom, and give you back a spot you actually want to wade into. Bigger dredge jobs run through EGLE for a permit, and we walk you through that so it is done right.