September 18, 2012 Water Monitoring Report

A cold September day on the lake and river, but if the fox squirrel I encountered swimming down the  middle of the Fox River can't complain than neither will I.  Water temperatures were 57.7 - 61.8 degrees. Water clarity is slightly better on the lake, and decreasing on the river.  The decrease on the river is expected, because the last reading was the best out of two years of monitoring, vegetation is breaking up in the lakes and rivers this time of year, and we should expect a little debris from Buffalo Lake in the river.  

Secchi disk was visible resting on the lake bottom at Fox R. Inlet.