Neighbor 2 doors down just put in 0.4 acres of St. Augustine sod yesterday. Immediate neighbor waters 3X per week, fertilizes straight through the wet season, and is currently spraying weed killer on the root shoots around the live oak that leans over our garage. Neighbor across from her has two properties, residence and rental on adjoining lots. He waters 3-4X per week and relentlessly fertilizes. None of them get the clippings or leaf litter out of the street so that all washes down the hill. Nobody wants to shell out the money to fix the problem with septic and antiquated municipal waste water systems. It is kind of an uphill battle to try to get any kind of meaningful movement on controlling eutrophication.

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Edited: 10/17/2018 at 05:12 PM by scombrid

Several years back we had a neighbor that watered his lawn ~10 hours straight, so much in fact that I took pictures of ducks bathing in my gutters.

I called the St Johns Water District Management and thought they would have some teeth. They don't. In fact, all they can do is send a letter. Fortunately my numnuts neighbor got scared and backed off from his stupidity. Funny that this guy had a PHd in Computer Science. Dumber than a rock in regards to the Lagoon's problems.

This is what we are dealing with.