Calcite covering of sediment as a possible way of curbing blue-green algae

Klapper, H. (1992) Calcite covering of sediment as a possible way of curbing blue-green algae. In: Sutcliffe, D.W. and Jones, J.G. (eds.) Eutrophication: research and application to water supply. Ambleside, UK, Freshwater Biological Association, pp. 107-111. (FBA Special Publications,3)

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Abstract

Natural calcite precipitation in lakes is a well-known control mechanism of eutrophication. In hard-water lakes, calcite deposits on the flat bottoms of shallow lakes and near the shores of deeper lakes resulted from biogenic decalcification during the millenia after the last glacial period. The objective of a new restoration technology is to intensify the natural process of precipitation by utilizing the different qualities of calcareous mud layers. In a pilot experiment in Lake Rudower See, East Germany, phosphorus-poor deeper layers of the sediments were flushed out and spread over the phosphorus-rich uppermost sediments, to promote the co- precipitation of calcite with phosphorus from the water-column.

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