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Lake Puckaway Protection and Rehabilitation District News and Information
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
June 19, 2012 Water Clarity and Field Report
Today's poor water clarity shows that algae is enjoying the bright sun, hot temperatures (water was 82 degrees by 2:00 pm) and nutrients provided them. The Fox River upstream is once again significantly clearer than the lake. A large number of Forster's terns are again nesting on the lake this year. They had to wait for May's extreme high water levels to drop, and boy have they dropped!
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no shock on the water clarity decrease. I still will argue with anyone this lake loses visability when the water level drops due to wave action stirring up the bottom. I see the room for algae but I still think a large portion of the visability is the waves hitting the bottom and churning the mud.
ReplyDeleteWave action can be a large factor in visibility, and is on Lake Puckaway for two reasons. One is the stirring up of the bottom as you mention, and the other is the nutrients in the bottom fertilizing algae. I find that some of the worst water clarity occurs on calm days when algae is not being mixed back into the water. The more time it can spend at the surface soaking up the sun the faster it will grow. A few hot, sunny and calm days on lakes with too many nutrients is like throwing a green switch.
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