This is a place to ask questions and share with your Duck Lake neighbors. Please keep the discussion cordial.
Duck Lake
Property Owners Association | Highland, MI
This is a place to ask questions and share with your Duck Lake neighbors. Please keep the discussion cordial.
Duck Lake 
September 7, 2021 at 3:26 pm
At least 2 bubblers are out in extreme NW corner of lake closest to White Lake Rd/Harvey Lake Rd. A little farther south in the lake, I see them working.
September 10, 2021 at 12:20 am
Are the non – working bubbler issues going to be addressed so we get the optimal benefits for our money?
September 13, 2021 at 1:59 pm
Guess not
September 13, 2021 at 2:45 pm
I saw two guys working on the bubblers in Little Duck before the storm chased them off. Not sure what they all did but they were out there.
September 13, 2021 at 2:56 pm
Great! Thanks for the up date! Wonder if these are the guys charging $180 per cut line repair or did some local Duck Lake resident with a kind soul accept the responsibilities and to do the jobs for free, going forward?
l recall Ole Anderson soliciting for someone local to step up and help save Duck Lake a ton of our tax money every season. Did he get any replies?
September 18, 2021 at 12:22 pm
Ole Anderson, did anyone reply to your search for a local resident to repair any cut lines so Ever Blue doesn’t have to get involved?
September 18, 2021 at 2:18 pm
I’m going to have to refer you to Ryan on that one, sorry.
September 18, 2021 at 11:58 pm
Why will you have to refer my question to Ryan on this one? You posted the inquiry about finding someone local to repair cut lines, not Ryan.
October 19, 2021 at 5:07 pm
Lame
September 4, 2021 at 7:31 pm
Missing a paddle boat? A Water Wheeler paddle boat (purple and cream colored) washed up in front of our house today – 4140 Chevron Dr (just by the Chevron bridge). I’ve tied it up to our dock. Please come and reclaim it if it’s yours.
August 26, 2021 at 8:24 am
I am requesting that Aquaweed treat Davista Dr on Big Duck. Weeds are popping up above the surface. Thanks.
August 26, 2021 at 10:35 am
Instead of treating the weeds, rake them or pull the weeds out. The weeds, if killed, just go to muck!
August 26, 2021 at 12:18 pm
I already weed the shoreline and make sure that the weeds are not going back into the lake, which would be great if everyone would take them out . I can only go only rake so deep.
August 25, 2021 at 2:33 pm
All residents need to attend the monthly meetings.
August 24, 2021 at 2:28 pm
Wow. So well said. Thank you Matt.
August 24, 2021 at 11:51 am
Hi everyone. Just a couple thoughts about the weeds in the lake here. It has been a pretty hot month or so and the lake is blooming. Please continue to contact the hotline or email via this site when you have a problem area that you would like looked at.
There is a debate on what is a problem area. You have to remember that the lake is a fish tank and not a swimming pool. It will never be clear from Wardlow to White Lake road. And frankly, you shouldn’t want it that way. Some weeds are ok. They provide habitat for the life under water as well as health for the lake. If you see a weed patch in an area say out in the middle or in an area where there are normally not swimmers, then that’s ok.
The continuous treatment of weeds using chemicals is what we are trying to get away from. These methods are what was slowly turning the lake into a swamp over the past almost 40 years. The long term solutions are the aeration system and the bio treatments. They clean the lake and remove the muck, which is what the weeds love to grow in. However, this process is very slow. We are basically on year three of at least a 10 year project. The reports have shown that the system is working. The fact that the muck is breaking up and moving around also shows that it is working. Continuing to spray with chemicals not only kills the bio treatments off, but kills the weeds rapidly creating more muck, kind of shooting ourselves in the foot. We have to continue to think long term and think big picture. In my bay, I personally have spent a lot more time the last couple summers with my rakes and weed razor then ever before, but I know in the long term, this system is going to make DL the cleanest lake in the county and probably one of the most desirable for property values as well.
Also, consider cutting back on fertilizer and weed treatments for your lawn. “Natural” products are really not any better either, no matter what the companies sell you. If it is designed to grow grass, it will grow weeds in the lake. Everything you put on your grass makes it way to the lake eventually, whether above ground or below in the water tables. Blanket weed treatments are running into the lake as well, so maybe spot treat the weeds yourself. It’s a nice way to take a stroll around your grass on a nice summer evening. 🙂
So, if you can live with those weeds under your dock, or if you can rake those lily pads by your beach out yourself, or work your lawn treatments differently, it will all help us to reach this long term goal. And be sure your septic system is working, well, too!
August 24, 2021 at 4:18 pm
I religiously rake my bottom for past 10 yrs, just about daily, and never saw so many weeds or loss to the advancing weeds. these weeds are reaching heights of 6ft if not more. If we do not weed treat, it will be a lost battle for using the lake during the summer and will continue adding to the muck. Whether we weed treat chemically or let them go, those weeds out there now have to go somewhere and thats to the bottom and shorelines. Only solution I see is to mechanically weed cut. That would not only free up the lake but the weeds would actually be removed rather then sent to the bottom to form muck. And yes, I do notice the bottom getting firmer in many spots but that will soon go back to mush as the enzymes will just spend their time eating the new dead weeds instead of the old dead weeds.
August 24, 2021 at 4:56 pm
Pontiac Lake cuts their weeds, or at least they used to. I talked to someone out there years ago and they were frustrated with it because they just grew back a few weeks later. The machine only cuts them a couple fret down. Maybe it’s different now. Not sure how we would pay for that, tho. 🤷♂️
August 24, 2021 at 6:09 pm
Harvesting is similar to mowing a lawn; the plant grows back and may need to be harvested several times during the growing season. unfortunately, there is little or no reduction in plant density with mechanical harvesting.
August 24, 2021 at 8:28 pm
I know that. Same thing with chemical treating, the weeds grow back. Only difference is with harvesting you remove the weeds from the lake while chemical they fall to the bottom and make more muck. I’d rather spend 100k harvesting weeds then chemically treating them unless they can actually chemically treat the weeds before they seed. And if they can do that then why dont they?
August 26, 2021 at 10:54 am
Just pull them!!! I started Doing a little patch in front of our house and was surprised that within 2 weeks we have no weeds. I started doing my neighbors because she can’t do it. but I am almost done there too!!!
JUST DO IT!!!
August 26, 2021 at 12:33 pm
Try reading my previous comments.
August 24, 2021 at 11:02 am
Curious if any spraying ever happens in the bay closest to the White Lake / Harvey Lake intersection? Or, the organisms that Lake Savers drops in? Or, are we the water that time forgot since we are less inhabited? Thanks.
August 24, 2021 at 11:20 am
Bio treatments and chemical spraying occurs in every navigable area of the lake, including this area.
August 24, 2021 at 11:38 am
Thanks for the quick response. Navigable being the key word here – can we be given some of the bio product to treat the areas that we can reach from our property?
August 24, 2021 at 11:57 am
Monika, please email me at mattbob20@gmail.com so I can review this area with you further.
September 7, 2021 at 1:54 pm
Hi Matt – I emailed you on 8/24. Did you receive?
September 7, 2021 at 2:00 pm
I did not
September 7, 2021 at 2:04 pm
OK – will send again now from my work and personal email addresses. Would you mind checking your junk mail later if you don’t receive?
August 24, 2021 at 11:21 am
Bio treatments and chemical treatments occur in every navigable part of the lake, including this area.
August 24, 2021 at 10:53 am
We also have weeds on the North Shore of middle Duck by the island. I hope they can spray there also.
August 24, 2021 at 11:19 am
They were notified of this area, also.
August 19, 2021 at 12:53 pm
Unfortunately I missed yesterdays meeting. I hope the massive weed growth was brought up. Along the south side of Little Duck the weeds have exploded in the past month. I rake them out of the bottom twice a week in my area and they still encroach. When the water level drops with this up coming dry stretch, they will flop over on the top and make boating, swimming, fishing worse. I am not sure if they are milfoil or some other weed, but if they are milfoil, then the aeration system is not working well because that is the weed it supposedly helps eliminate. We need to go back to weed treatment twice a year. Or, isn’t there some kind of Preen for lakes that prevent certain weeds from growing instead of killing them after they grow. It would avoid adding to the muck we are trying to get rid of.
August 21, 2021 at 2:15 pm
Thanks for addressing this, Danny. We feel the same way. Frustrating.
August 21, 2021 at 3:06 pm
Aquaweed will be out late next week to treat these areas.
August 21, 2021 at 5:21 pm
Great thanks! Though I saw them out surveying last week and they went right to the corner by Maple Ridge and Willow then went towards South Bay Shores. I never saw them come the other way along the south side of little Duck. I hope they are aware of that area.
July 28, 2021 at 3:29 pm
Help, could someone please contact Everblue and let them know all our bubblers are not working on the White lake road part of the lake.