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Friends of Cottage Lake is currently focused on improving water quality and
restoring lake habitat.
2007-2009 Projects:
Ongoing Projects:
- Water-quality monitoring with goals of:
- Improving our knowledge of current problems facing the lake.
- Measuring levels of additional pollutants such as fecal coliform
bacteria.
- Determining impacts of all our projects.
- Data from the first year of monitoring can be found in our
January 2007 newsletter
- Native shoreline planting:
- Add native shoreline plants to reduce lake-bound phosphorus from
lawn run-off.
- Shoreline plants help keep Canada geese off of lawns (another source
of fecal coliform pollution).
- Community outreach and education:
- Increase community awareness of lake issues and possible solutions.
- Help change behaviors in the community to reduce our impact on
Cottage Lake.
- Noxious weed removal:
- Community Newsletter - "The Cottage Lake Connection"
We are currently working with King County to apply for
funding for these projects. In the summer of 2005, our lake was chosen as a
recipient of a
Centennial Clean Water Fund grant—this grant targets the phosphorus problem
and will fund water quality monitoring and community outreach programs for 5
years.

Eagle on Cottage Lake
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