The results of our survey
show that about 50% of the shoreline houses have good or fair buffer
strips.However, the other 50%
had poor or unacceptable buffer strips that require improvement.
We found that 55% of
properties have less than 60 ft of shoreline indicating that the houses are
very close together.Also 61%
of the houses have a 0-10 ft buffer depth which is too shallow to prevent
runoff.
China Lake has heavy
shoreline development and there are only a few forested areas on the East
Basin.