eed Cutting and Chemical Treatment Committees were also started. Weed cutting, pulling and removing from the lake was done. It was thought that the crops of algae pulled from the lake could be used as fodder for cattle, or composted and used in gardens and farm fields as fertilizer. They decided to limit the cutting of weeds out of fear of throwing off the balance of the natural lake (4). The Chemical Treatment Committee was to investigate options of chemical use to remove or maintain proper algae growth. Although the copper sulphate idea was stopped they were considering using ferric chloride to reduce phosphates in the lake (4). Along with these committees came the Soil Erosion Control and Drudging Committees. The Soil Erosion Control Committee was to record and respond to the input and withdrawal of phosphorus in the lake, by way of fields and streets. The committee was to devise ways and means to control heavy spring and fall run off (4). The Drudging Committee was started to move the highly nutrient supply of soil and mud from the bottom of the lake to the land, were it may have been used for the growing of crops (4). Last and not least was the Research Steering Committee, which was put in place to keep records of all the data. And use the information attained to help out for future research and other efforts to help in the cleaning up of Lake Mendota (4).Since The Lake Mendota Association was a non-profit organization, there wasnt a whole lot of money coming into the program; since the government wasnt involved, none of the effective fertilizer applications and soil erosion techniques could be enforced to the farmers and gardeners. Not a whole lot of things could be done, until 1993. In 1993, Lake Mendota was put on the Priority Watershed list, by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) (7a.). This action sparked the DNR, the Department of Agriculture, the Trade and Consumer Protection Agency, the Dane Co...
