October 2, 2012 Water Monitoring Report

Not to much new to report, most of the plants are dormant, or soon will be for the season. There were a number of diving ducks bobbing up and down in the West Basin, and hundreds of coots in East Basin.  Even though the water is no longer that green, algae is still abundant.  It is not as noticeable at first because the green and blue-green algae we see in the summer is now uncommon.  They have largely been replaced by the golden-brown algae (diatoms).  The current algae bloom happens to be the diatom Melosira granulata as seen in the photograph below.

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