Water Treatment Plant Reservoir Canada Geese Control

Water treatment plants and reservoirs offer the two things Canada geese need most: open water and grass to graze on right beside it, all with minimal public access. Left unmanaged, resident flocks can grow quickly around these sites, and geese droppings near intake structures, walkways, and maintenance areas raise real water quality and public health concerns for the utilities and municipalities that operate them.

Birds & Geese Beware, Inc. has worked with water authorities and municipal facilities across New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut since 1991, building programs that protect water quality without harming a single bird.

Goose pressure at water infrastructure sites tracks the seasonal calendar. Nesting season, late winter into early spring, is when resident pairs stake out territory along the shoreline, and it is the best window for a concentrated Initial Clearing Program to keep a pair from settling in for the year. During the summer molt, adult geese are flightless for several weeks and gather on the open water and grass they trust most, which for a reservoir often means the exact shoreline closest to intake structures. Migratory flocks passing through in fall can briefly add to whatever resident birds are already using the site.

Facility operators who share security protocols and any planned shoreline or grounds work with us get a service calendar built around them, rather than a flat rotation that may not match when goose pressure is heaviest.