Page 30 - 2019 Lake St. Clair Guide Magazine

Have you noticed your watercraft 2019 Waterfront Fireworks
or docks getting black?
around Lake St. Clair,

the St. Clair River & Detroit River

June 20 New Baltimore - Anchor Bay
June 24 Detroit /Windsor - Detroit River
June 28 St. Clair Shores - Veteran’s Memorial Park
July 4 Belle Maer/MacRay Marinas - Anchor Bay
July 4 City of St. Clair - St. Clair River
July 5 Algonac Pickerel Festival - St. Clair River

NOT! Scary

Did you notice a HUGE problem this black soot.

with a “grimy black soot looking stuff” Obviously using

on your boats and docks that you had a real bleach is

trouble removing? bad around the

This happened to us, along with sev- water, but I read

eral of our neighbors this past year. it is also real-

Most common to Silver Maple trees, ly bad to use

there is an insect – Cottony Maple on dock wood

Scale. These insects suck the juic- and will hurt

es from twigs and branches and then the stitching on

excrete a sweet sticky liquid called your vinyl.

honeydew. This liquid then turns to a

black, sooty mold and

drops and sticks to

everything nearby an

infested Maple. How to Treat growth starts in the spring or after the
leaves drop in the fall.
How to Clean? your Tree?
Additional treatments may be needed
Safe for the environ- A horticultural oil in August/September - call your local
Tree expert.
ment, an “oxygen treatment may

bleach” like OxiClean is Our neighbors used be applied before

recommended to clean OxiClean & Elbow Grease

to successfully remove this

Black Soot Like stuff

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