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 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 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