The Department of Environmental Quality permit is required because we are close to the water. I think its great that they protect the water and wetlands. Since we are building on an existing site, and do not plan to disrupt the lakeside vegetation, I don't expect there will be a problem. Several of the other places on the lake cut the grass right down to the water's edge, but we have a buffer of cattails, pickerel weed, joe-pye weed, and sedges. The only gap is for a narrow dock and canoe launch. I like how the cattails change over the seasons, and we get muskrats and red-winged blackbirds and dragonflies hanging out in them. We often see birds, especially chickadees, picking at the heads for food and nesting material. It also harbours some dodder, a cool parasitic plant with no leaves, just a stem that twines around the cattails and uses their photosynthates.
Cattails
Dodder
A Blue Dasher perched on a cattail.
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