Environment
Committee
Studies & Reports
Asian Carp set to
Invade Great Lakes
The
Asian Carp are invasive fish that are harming the environment and
economies of the Mississippi, and threaten to do the same to the Great
Lakes. As Great Lakes fishing declines, sport fishermen will move
north, putting pressure on the fish populations in cottage country.
This is everyone’s problem. . . .[read
more] . . . and see this website for [additional info]
Lake of Bays Association 2006
Water Quality Monitoring Report
Since 2000, the Lake of Bays Association
has monitored key water quality parameters in Lake of Bays. The focus
of the 2006 monitoring program shifted from investigation of nearshore
impacted zones to assessment of general lake health in nearshore and
openwater areas of the lake. This report summarizes results of the 2006
monitoring program for bacteria and phosphorus levels.
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Update on the District's Long Range Solid Waste
Management Plan - April 2006
The study team worked away for well over a
year, evaluating the various options available to meet the District's
solid waste disposal needs. The short list of alternatives was reduced
to expansion of an existing facility as the preferred option.
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Highlights of 2005 Water Quality Testing Program -
Phosphorus
Many Lake of Bays residents were concerned
this summer with
the appearance of algal blooms in the water and particularly with the
statement those blooms might be making regarding the water quality and
general health of the Lake. People love to hate algae and algal blooms,
considering them to be harbingers of reduced water quality, but … the
relationship between algae, algal blooms and water quality is
complicated.
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2004 Bacteriological Study, Lake of Bays
During the summer of 2004, for the fifth year in a row, the Lake of
Bays Association continued to monitor the water quality of Lake of Bays
for several key chemical indicators of water and watershed health. As
in 2003 samples were collected for determination of bacteria and
phosphorus . . . .
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the 2004 Bacteriological Study
2002 Bacteriological Study, Lake of Bays
LOBA Environment Committee, under the supervision of Gartner
Lee Ltd. continued its water quality monitoring program in the summer
of 2002. A significant addition to the program was the investigation of
nearshore phosphorus levels. The bacterial component of the program
remained essentially unchanged from the previous 2001 program.
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2001 Bacteriological Study, Lake of Bays
In the summer of 2001, LOBA volunteers designed and executed a
bacterial monitoring program under the supervision of Dr. Neil
Hutchinson of Gartner Lee Ltd. A total of twenty sites on the two major
'arms' at the top of Lake of Bays were sampled on seven scheduled
weekends from late May to late September and after two rain events of
2.5 cm or more in 24 hours.
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