August 18, 2013 Water Monitoring Report

Water clarity continues to be much better than the previous two years.  Hopefully this is a trend that will continue into next year.  Once again I was working on a Sunday when there was heavy boat traffic on the Fox River upstream of the lake.  This traffic above the slow-no-wake zone erodes the banks and kicks up the bottom greatly reducing viability.

Secchi disk was visible while sitting on the bottom of the lake at the inlet, so a true