These are the unofficial results from the water sampling conducted on 5/18/2006 around 10:00 am by Evan & Chuck Henage: These results should be official early next week.  I don’t plan to update this notice unless something changes

#1    Dock                            16 cfu
#2    Cedar Fork Creek        22cfu
#3    Booker Creek              21 cfu
 
Caution level is individual reading above 400 cfu, or average above 200 cfu. 

It drizzled the morning before the test and rained hard later in the day.

Lake water temp:
20 C (Dock)
19.5 C (Cedar Fork Creek forebay)
19 C (Booker Creek inlet arm)

These readings are OK. Not as low as last month.  There was a lot of goose poop on both docks, and we sampled closer to the dock than usual.  These are low readings.  We have had lower ones, but I can attribute most of the increase to the  presence and activity of the waterfowl.  I am hoping that the readings will drop once we get some warmer water and swimmers outcompete the geese for control of the docks. 

The water is unusually cool for this time of year, and that is not a bad thing.  The overall quality and clarity was better than any spring since the last lake restoration.  Looks like we have some sizable fish in the shallows.

I am concerned about the increased number of lawn service trucks I see in the neighborhood.  As property values escalate and some of the “woods” that were part of our original “rustic urban retreat” age out or get taken out by storms, the professionally maintained lawn is now more commonplace.  I hope the word is out about the use of lake-margin fertilizer formulatons (no phosphate), and careful “watering in” so we don’t get nutrient runoff.  That fuels an algae bloom that usually starts about now.  I have seen other smaller lakes in the area that have turned into brown carpets this spring.   There was none of that in our lake when we took the samples on Thursday.