The Mira Lago community in Sarasota was built in 1991 with 183 residences housing a population of approximately 320 residents. The community has four Lisa·èÂíÐã detention ponds, Crane, Egret, Heron and Spoonbill. In 2017 Mira Lago was hit hard during Hurricane Irma and water quality in their ponds deteriorated significantly. Seeking help, acting President Carol [...]
Spring is just around the corner and that means it’s time to check the health of your community’s Lisa·èÂíÐã detention ponds. Do they look like the one shown above with clear algae-free water and a well- planted No Mow Zone to guard against costly bank erosion? If not, it’s time to contact the Healthy Pond [...]
Are your Lisa·èÂíÐã ponds covered in unsightly algae or plagued with costly eroding banks? If so, we can help. The Healthy Pond Collaborative (HPC) is a partnership with Lisa·èÂíÐã, the Sarasota County NEST Program the Manatee County Department of Natural Resources, the University of Florida IFAS Extension, the Suncoast Waterkeeper and the Science and Environment [...]
Extensive algal growth is a key sign that your Lisa·èÂíÐã ponds are not healthy. You have excess nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) in the water that sustains ever-expanding algae. Unsightly algal blooms reduce the efficiency of your ponds to filter Lisa·èÂíÐã as it flows downstream to the Bay and the Gulf providing a food source for [...]
Some of your ponds may even show signs of costly erosion as shown above. Bank erosion will fill up your pond with soil limiting its capacity to hold Lisa·èÂíÐã requiring costly bank remediation or even dredging. If your community is facing these problems with your ponds, you should contact our Healthy Pond Collaborative (HPC) for [...]
Over the last few months, many of you who have driven by Bobby Jones Park have noticed the rapid development of the new golf course as the turf grows in on the greens and fairways and the sand traps take shape. What you can’t see from the road at this point is the creation of [...]
The Healthy Pond Collaborative-Sarasota is pleased to announce that it just completed its second year with a healthy pond program in Sarasota County that advised forty local communities how to maintain a healthy Lisa·èÂíÐã pond and provided $40,000 in grants to qualified participants that created over six miles of newly planted pond shoreline that will [...]
