1.      Avoid or limit the use of fertilizer on your waterfront lawn.  Apply fertilizers no closer than five feet from the water’s edge, and only use a designed no/low-phosphorus variety when fertilizer is needed.  Since our weedy plant and algae species react quickly to increased phosphorus levels in the water, this will minimize the effect of "fertilizing the weeds" via runoff from the lawn.

 2.      Ensure landscape maintenance crews avoid placing or disposing of any lawn clippings or other vegetation in the waterways. Lawn clippings act like fertilizer for weed growth and can often contain seeds of many weedy, undesirable plants.

These two simple steps are absolutely essential to ensuring clean, healthy waterways and shorelines throughout the City.  Please do your part to help keep our lakes clean and healthy!

You may also obtain native flowering wetland plants from a local nursery and plant them in and near the weedy areas to help improve water quality and discourage future weed growth. These native plants can be very pretty with bright flowers ranging from blue and purple to red and yellow.  Some good examples are blue iris, spider lilies, and yellow canna. If you would like additional suggestions for plantings or have questions on where to obtain these plants, please feel free to contact the City’s Public Works Department at publicworks@westonfl.org or 954-385-2600.

* The herbicide chemicals and application methods utilized by the City are very carefully regulated by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service (FDACS), that these chemicals are approved for aquatic use, and that they are not considered toxic to the birds, fish, turtles, or other animals that live alongside us when applied as directed.