Removal of aquatic weeds and reeds
With the arrival of every summer season, life around water bodies flourishes, regardless of their purpose. Fish farms step up breeding, irrigation reservoirs are actively used for agricultural purposes, and recreational and ornamental ponds attract huge numbers of people to their shores. Closer to autumn, most water bodies begin to become heavily overgrown with unwanted vegetation. Reeds, dense algae, sedge, duckweed and other plant species typically make access to the shore and the water difficult, worsen the phytosanitary condition of the water, reduce water quality and phytoplankton levels in fish farming, and lower the nutritional value of the resource in water bodies used for irrigating farmland.
When Does a Water Body Need Cleaning?
The problem of abundant and excessive overgrowth of water bodies is most often encountered in the northern regions of the country, where the water is traditionally oversaturated with vegetation that, at the first favorable conditions, is ready to spread at an incredibly high rate, creating a host of problems for the further use of the water body. There can be many reasons for clearing lakes, river channels, ponds and other water bodies of unwanted vegetation, but most of them lie in practical and economic considerations.
Thus, when emergent aquatic vegetation covers more than a quarter of the water body's area, the processes of soil acidification and bottom siltation intensify. In addition, in most cases the vegetation shades the water itself, reducing not only its light exposure, which may be important in certain cases, but also the water temperature. Finally, a water body overgrown with algae, reeds and other vegetation becomes unsuitable for fish farming of any kind. Excessive vegetation in a water body can intercept important nutrients, which reduces the photosynthesis rate of aquatic phytoplankton, decreases its population and noticeably worsens the food base for fish.
The same applies to ornamental and recreational water bodies, where heavy vegetation creates many inconveniences for their use, reduces their overall attractiveness and deprives vacationers of comfortable access to the water.
Water bodies most often urgently need cleaning before the end of the summer season. And this is no reason to postpone the work just because the water body will be used less intensively as autumn approaches. If the cleaning is not carried out in compliance with the full set of standards and requirements, by the start of the next season mowing the vegetation and clearing the water surface will no longer be enough. In that case, far more costly work, both financially and in terms of time, will be required, often involving an almost complete restoration of the shore and the water area. Nature, as we know, easily takes over, turning what was only yesterday a beautiful water body for recreation, irrigation or fish farming into a real swamp and a site unsuitable for agricultural activity.
In general, clearing water bodies of reeds, algae and other vegetation is usually carried out as the flora grows to volumes that interfere with normal use and create the preconditions for a decline in key biological indicators.
One of the most important arguments in favor of clearing vegetation from water bodies is the fact that such work costs significantly less than cleaning the bottom of various deposits, while preventing or reducing the accumulation of harmful bottom sediments, which may later require more expensive and lengthy work. Quality and timely prevention always helps avoid a worsening situation or major problems.
Professional Water Body Cleaning
The conclusion in this case is quite simple: the vegetation must be removed promptly. Moreover, it is advisable to complete all the relevant work before the seeds ripen. Since ancient times, a wide variety of tools and methods have been used for this purpose, but each of them required a lot of time and also caused damage to aquatic fauna and flora comparable to the consequences of phenomena far more destructive than overgrowth. For example, manual mowing did not allow the water area to be fully cleared of vegetation, and the plants that survived quickly took over the space freed by their "relatives" within days. The "folk" method of collecting mowed vegetation does not stand up to criticism either. Dragging concrete blocks or metal beams always has a negative effect on the condition of the bottom, depriving it of its basic natural qualities.
The most effective way to clear the water surface of vegetation accumulated over the season, and to cut reeds, sedge, algae and other wild plants that clog the ecosystem of a water body, is the use of dredgers.
"Dredgers of Ukraine" offers services for clearing water bodies of unwanted vegetation using professional equipment of its own design, with a guarantee of high-quality work at some of the most affordable prices on the country's market. Professional high-performance equipment makes it possible to solve the problem of overgrowth not only quickly, but also in compliance with all key parameters, such as the cutting depth of the vegetation, to prevent its rapid regrowth in the water area.
Floating mowers with rakes, dredgers with buckets and other professional equipment are the only type of machinery that allows effective cleaning of water bodies, restoration of the ecosystems of ponds, lakes and river channels, and clearing of water areas for various purposes while preventing the rapid regrowth of the removed vegetation. In addition, thanks to the high productivity of such equipment, the cleaning work is completed in the shortest possible time, so there is no need to adjust the schedule of the water body's core operations in line with its intended purpose.
The mechanized method of clearing water bodies of algae and reeds allows the cut material to be thoroughly collected and stored in specially designated areas. The cut vegetation can later be used for various agricultural purposes or disposed of at minimal cost.