Water Quality
VLMP Videos
Many of our online videos have been sent to us by volunteer monitors. If you have a video you would like us to consider posting here please send a CD or DVD with your contact information and short summary to VLMP, 24 Maple Hill Rd, Auburn, ME 04210.
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Perspectives on how Maine lakes have benefited from 37 years of volunteer monitoring. | |
Benthic (or bottom) barriers provide a cost-effective method for controlling dense patches of invasive plants. This excellent video by Maine’s own Jim Chandler provides clear, step-by-step instructions on how to construct a reusable 10’ X 40’ benthic barrier in 36 minutes. Cost per barrier (2007 prices): 10 cents per square foot, or $40. | |
Volunteer monitor Dennis Roberge observes the commensalistic relationship between eels and bass while snorkeling in Balch Pond. | |
Little Sebago Lake in Windham Maine is infested with the invasive variable water-milfoil hybrid (Myriophyllum heterophyllum x Myriophyllum laxum). During the June 16, 2007 VLMP Manual Control Methods workshop on Little Sebago Lake, SCUBA divers practiced manually removing plants and transporting them to the surface using a Diver Assisted Suction Harvester (DASH). | |
Lew Wetzel’s video provides a glimpse of what a SCUBA diver experiences when swimming through an area heavily infested with invasive milfoil. | |
Volunteer monitor Lew Wetzel uses his pole-mounted underwater video camera to monitor variable water-milfoil in Lily Brook, following the removal of benthic barriers. | |
Produced by Maine DEP & Maine COLA this is a training video for Courtesy Boat Inspectors. |
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