Higgins Lake (Michigan)
The Higgins Lake Property Owners Association has partnered with Restorative Lake Sciences, LLC., whose 2020 Report details successful clean-up of the South State Park Lagoon using Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting (DASH) of EMW and an analysis of the pros and cons of different aquatic invasive management approaches for Higgins Lake. This report is a comprehensive, holistic analysis and recommendation for action for Higgins Lake.
Lake Leelanau (Michigan)
The Lake Leelanau Lake Association, on its invasive species page, details the inadequacies of chemical and biological control approaches over the last decade, reports on the success lakes in the east and in Michigan have had with hand and diver assisted harvesting, and recommends immediate implementation of Diver Assisted Suction removal. This is a well written and detailed page.
Lake Association And GT Band Combating “Most Serious Threat Lake Leelanau Has Ever Faced” By Ross Boissoneau | April 12, 2021
“The tribe and the lake association agreed we didn’t want to use chemicals,” Mays says. Instead, their plan included surveying, carefully harvesting the plants from the roots, and cutting off their supply of sunlight."
Torch Lake (Michigan)
Eurasian watermilfoil in Torch Lake, Lara D. Roketenetz, PhD Candidate, University of Akron; Publication Year: 2016
A very readable presentation about how to identify Eurasian Water Milfoil vs. Native Milfoil, how it gets into lakes and spreads, various treatment methods and recommendations for Torch Lake, which include: long‐term commitment to monitoring and management, suction harvesting, hand-pulling, and Weevils for dense beds, in addition to a targeted public awareness campaign, better signage at all boat launches, volunteers to watch boat launches/survey lake littoral
zone for floating fragments, and outreach to all lake residents.
New Hampshire Lakes
Chemical-Free Lakes A Resource Guide to New Hampshire’s Invasive Aquatic Plants and Non-Toxic Treatment Alternatives, has case studies detailing the failure of chemical methods over years of application and successful transition and sustained EMW management using manual methods. Of particular interest is the story of a three community collaborative effort to invest in Diver Assisted Suction Harvesting, how they kept the costs down and a specific study of one community where 35 acres of EWM treated with herbicide in 2005 had completely grown back in 2007. They started DASH in 2008 and by 2010 the EMW is now fully and affordably managed without herbicides.