September 6, 2012 Water Monitoring Report

Summer is drawing to a close, the cane beds, and willows have are beginning to turn yellow, and the water is going from green to brown.   The color shift is partially a changing of the gaurd in algae species.  Fading away are the green, and blue green algae, replaced by brown algae.  Water clarity on the Fox River upstream of Puckaway could not be determined because the Secchi disk used to measure it was still visible resting on the bottom in 9 ft. of water.  I would estimate that true clarity was 10.5-12 ft.  The prior deepest recorded was 8.8 ft. at the same spot Sept. 16, 2011

At both the Fox River Inlet and deep hole the Secchi disk
hit bottom, and true clarity could not be read.