1. Continue to monitor progress and success of floating treatment wetlands.
2. Continue to educate and encourage area homeowners to take steps to reduce the flow of excess nutrients and harmful chemicals into Long Pond.
3. Continue to research new and emerging solutions such as barley straw, mechanical removal of cyanobacteria via barge, biochar and hydrogen peroxide - based algaecides.
A summary of cyanobacteria remediation options appears on page 145 of this Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute 2024 report and in this EPA document.
2. Continue to educate and encourage area homeowners to take steps to reduce the flow of excess nutrients and harmful chemicals into Long Pond.
3. Continue to research new and emerging solutions such as barley straw, mechanical removal of cyanobacteria via barge, biochar and hydrogen peroxide - based algaecides.
A summary of cyanobacteria remediation options appears on page 145 of this Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute 2024 report and in this EPA document.