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  John Muir once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” Water quality problems at Panguitch Lake, and many other places, are not necessarily a result of the natural and human events directly tied to that body of water, but may be the result of events that happen, in some cases, many miles away. When hydrologists began looking at phosphorus loading in Panguitch Lake, they found that much of the phosphorus was naturally-occurring, from phosphorus-laden soils in the upper portions of the watershed, which enter the lake from Blue Springs Creek. Erosion control methods such as checkdams, juniper revetments, sediment retention ponds, streambank rehabilitation and revegetation proved effective means to limiting phosphorus input to the lake. |
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