Marrington Plantation Pond in South Carolina

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Comment by Derrick Bustle on March 13, 2012 at 8:12pm

FROG ,FROG, FROG

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on March 13, 2012 at 7:11pm

Yep - there is a connection between excessive emergent vegetation and low dissolved oxygen (hypoxia). I see a lot of warm shallows in this pic and not much depth, which leads to rampant plant growth. There appears to be a central channel, but there cannot be much flow through it.

Many of the old mill ponds we see here look similar. They have been backing up creeks for well over a century in most cases, and have the same advanced eutrophyic features.

Comment by dick tabbert on March 13, 2012 at 6:56pm

Looks like this would be a honey hole for some of them Carolina hogs.

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on March 13, 2012 at 6:39pm

I hear you Jim....I'm close to the ocean and I'd rather be on a lily pond....These are public David but they're full of gators and they grass up every year so I think the oxygen stays low and the fishing is average at best in Marrington Plantation...Pretty place with a lot of shore birds....

Comment by David, aka, "McScruff" on March 13, 2012 at 6:24pm

It looks like some of the ones we have around here, all private of course. Ive never been good at getting permission....

Comment by jim cosgrove on March 13, 2012 at 6:21pm

i prefer that to any beach or resort.wish i could smell it