Good ideas have a way of spreading! The Lawn to Lake effort has expanded from Vermont/New York to include southern Lake Michigan! Visit the Lake Michigan Watershed page here.
News & Media
Phosphorus fertilizer signs available to Vermont retailers, 1/17/12
Free point of sale materials for retailers "Don't 'P' on the lawn," Burlington Free Press 2/28/10 Water Quality Improves After Lawn Fertilizer Ban, Study Shows Science Daily 8/27/09 "It's Easy Being Green," WCAX News, 5/14/08 VT Agency of Agriculture PSAs (Windows Media Videos) - Responsible Fertilizer Use (3 MB) - Don't P on Your Lawn! (3 MB) NEWS: Switch to Phosphorus-Free Fertilizer for Fall Lawn Care [8/28/07] "Critical lawn-care season arrives now" by Amy Ivy - Press Republican, 8/20/07 "Urban, Suburban Pollution Threaten Lake," Burlington Free Press, 8/14/07 "Lawn to Lake Connection" WCAX News, 8/10/07  Local retailers encouraged to carry P-free fertilizers "Don't 'P' on Your Lawn" Casin' the Basin Spring 07 (900 KB PDF) "All fertilizers are not alike" by Amy Ivy - Press Republican, 5/7/07 "For A 'Green' Lawn, Focus On Mowing, Not Early Fertilizing," Cornell News Release 4/30/07 |
Don't P on your lawn!
Photos: Metro Watershed Partners
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"P" stands
for phosphorus—the most
problematic pollutant in Lake Champlain and in many other lakes in Vermont
and northern New York. Phosphorus is a nutrient found in most lawn and
garden fertilizers. When fertilizers run off from lawns and into lakes,
they feed unsightly, smelly and potentially toxic blue-green algal blooms. 
Make
a Switch! It's easy for home
owners and businesses to switch to P-free (phosphorus-free) lawn
fertilizers to reduce urban sources of phosphorus.
Doing so may help reduce algal growth in your favorite lake—and
you can still have a beautiful lawn!website
by Lake Champlain Basin Program | updated 09.08.09