The Main problem about the Macatawa Watershed is that if we don't clean it the water will go into Lake Michigan. The reason it is so dirty and looks like chocolate milk is because you fertilize your garden with chemicals . The chemicals to into Lake Macatawa when it rains. And then they make algae. Later it dies and goes to the bottom. Soon the fish will die because the algae is at the bottom.And that is not the worst part of the timeline.
The timeline of the dirtiness of Lake Macatawa
- You put chemicals into you garden
- It starts to rain and your garden is all wet
- All the chemicals go to the nearest body of water but in this case the Macatawa Watershed
- The chemicals go crazy and algae starts to bud
- The algae dies and turns brown
- The lake turns brown
- The fish die because of the algae
- All the algae goes into Lake Michigan
- Now the beach of Lake Michigan is slowly turning brown.
- All the fish are slowly dying
Some smaller problems are that a lot of fish will die in the dirty lake and new plants will grow and the native plants of lake Macatawa will die. With all that happening it will change what fish live there and the fish will not live there anymore. Some plants grow underwater with the sun shining on them. But when you have a body of water covered with algae, how will the plants grow? To find out what we can do to help, go to The Solutions page.