Water Quality Monitoring Program Update

Our water quality monitoring program is in full swing. The results of the first three weeks of water quality monitoring are below:

To quote Tom Hardy, Chair of the SMLA Water Quality Monitoring Program, “all readings are consistent with the increased growth of algae that we have observed so far this year, which can lead to reduced water clarity and higher chlorophyll-a readings, and may be stimulated by higher phosphorous content in the water. Still, these readings represent just three weeks of sampling, with three more sampling periods yet to come. Let’s see if these numbers rally in the second half of the sampling season.”