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Contents
- VLMP Featured on Talk of the Town
- 2010 Secchi Data Online
- Native Plant Lists Online
- Close the Camp with Care
| Greetings Maine Lake Monitors & Friends, Summer ended abruptly a few weeks ago, and signs of Autumn abound. Changes in the light are noticeable, as is the rim of red leaves around the wetland areas of our lakes. With only a few weeks of monitoring season to go, we hope you’ll find time for peaceful reflection on the water. Here are a few recent updates we wanted to share with you. Roberta Hill on air this Friday with WERU's ‘Talk of the Town’
|  Estes Lake by Becky Southwick |
2010 Secchi Data Online
We are piloting a project to report current volunteer monitor Secchi disk readings online. Eventually we hope this feature will help volunteer monitors and the public to get a general sense for the current season's water quality trends. The goal is to expand the number of lakes reporting current data for the 2011 season with volunteers regularly uploading their Secchi disk readings to the website. The data comes from certified volunteer monitors but has not been through the VLMP’s quality assurance process.
See the list of lakes with 2010 data available...
What is growing in your lake? Now you can find out, from the reported native plant list submitted by Invasive Plant Patrollers. Keeping a close eye out for invasive aquatic plants (IAP) such as Eurasian water-milfoil, has led many volunteer plant patrollers to develop a keener interest in (and appreciation for) their lake’s native plant communities. Getting to know the local native aquatic plants is fun, interesting and rewarding. One of the many rewards is the steady development of a “familiar backdrop” upon which anything new and/or out of the ordinary (such as an invasive plant) may be more readily detected.
See if a native plant list has been started for your lake.
Close the Camp with Care
By William Laflamme an Environmental Specialist with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection's (DEP) Bureau of Land and Water Quality, from In Our Backyard
Another summer has flown by. It probably seems like just yesterday that you were opening your camp to prepare for those fun-filled days on the water. Now it’s time to get the camp ready for the fall and winter months ahead. During this yearly winterizing ritual, it’s important to consider possible effects to nearby lakes and streams as well as to the groundwater. Read more...
Keep warm and safe out on the water!
Scott, Roberta, Jim & Christine
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