Preparing for Your Pond’s Future by SOLitude Lake Management As ponds age, their composition changes. Years and years of leaves falling into the pond or sediment from stormwater runoff can drastically change the pond’s bottom. What once was a pond that had an average depth of 5 feet may now be only 3 and in some places there may be less than one foot of depth. One of the best monitoring tools a pond owner…
The Mapping Network is an industry leader in Geographic Information Systems Consulting, Data Conversion, and GPS Data Collection. Our network of lake management professionals specialize in terrain and sub-surface (bathymetry) GPS mapping. Staff at The Mapping Network have been using GIS and GPS technology for land and water services since 1995. Over the years we have developed proprietary technologies for data collection, analysis and map generation. We have shared our technology with a select group…
Greg Grimes with Aquatic Environmental Services, Inc., designed and resided over the 2009 construction of a trophy bass fishing lake for Jeff Foxworthy in Georgia. This master planned lake was designed specifically for growing trophy large-mouth bass. Extensive habitat structure, ridges, brush, feeders, etc were carefully placed during construction. Once the lake was full the client had the lake mapped utilizing The Mapping Network’s lake mapping technology to reveal this unseen, underwater world. Combining sub-foot…
Successful lake management requires an understanding of composition, depth and volume of your lake. Greg Grimes, President of Aquatic Environmental Services, Inc (Ball Ground, Georgia), had a client request an updated lake map to note current depths and mark sediment depths. Information gathered during the lake mapping process helped Mr. Grimes’ client better comprehend the level of sedimentation building up over time in this fishing lake. The resulting map provided the baseline depth profile needed…
