What You Can Do to Help Preserve Lake Eau Claire

• Check that your boat is clean before launching. Invasive plants are introduced to the lake this way and can grow out of control causing extensive damage.
• Don't use live bait when fishing. Invasive species are introduced to the lake in this manner.
• Plant a strip of vegetation along your shoreline, 20 feet deep to help filter nutrients from runoff and slow sediment.
• Don't drive boats through weed beds or over shallow areas.
• Locate your lawn behind the shoreline vegetation strip.
• Avoid using fertilizers.
• Have your soil tested before using fertilizers.
• Keep a 30-foot buffer from water’s edge when using non-phosphorus (slow release) fertilizer.
• Mow high—three inches minimum (you can adjust the height on the mower).
• Leave grass clippings on the lawn.
• Sharpen mower blades annually.
• Avoid herbicides, which kill plants that are beneficial to the lake, and can harm or kill lake fish.
• Use native plants in a shoreline vegetation strip.
• Plant a rain garden. A rain garden is an attractive landscaping feature planted with perennial native plants. It is a bowl-shaped or saucer-shaped garden with deep, loose soil, designed to absorb stormwater run-off from impervious surfaces such as roofs and parking lots that pollute the lake.

Volunteer:
If you'd like to donate your time to help with Lake Eau Claire rehabilitation and conservation, contact Kristin Charlton at kbcharlton@msn.com or 715-286-5166.

Donate:
As a non-profit organization we depend on monetary donations. If you'd like to contribute funds to a specific event or towards an all-purpose use, please click here to download and complete a donation form and mail it to:

Lake Eau Claire Association
P.O. Box 229
Eau Claire, WI 54722