Category: Water Quality Updates

Water Quality Update for Friday, August 7th, 2026

The Lake This Week Average lake surface temp, water clarity, and lake level all went down this week compared to last – and we continued to have more harmful algae bloom (HAB) reports come in. Kershaw beach was closed for

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Water Quality Update for Friday, July 31, 2026

The Lake This Week After last week ending with HAB reports on Friday and again on Sunday – it’s been a relatively quiet week to end the month. The 3 harmful algae bloom reports in the header were all from

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Water Quality Update for Friday, July 24, 2026

The Lake This Week There has been a lot going on around the lake since last Friday’s update. We got that big wind and rain storm on Saturday and more rain from another big storm on Tuesday, which brought in

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Water Quality Update for Friday, July 17, 2026

The Lake This Week While this is our weekly water quality update, air quality has been the big environmental story this week. Smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada prompted New York State to issue an Air Quality Health

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Water Quality Update for Friday, July 10, 2026

Water Quality Updates Welcome to our first weekly water quality update of the season. This time of year – we transition from our monthly ‘Lake Matters’ E-news to our weekly updates – to keep everyone informed about the current conditions

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Water Quality Update for Friday October 3rd, 2025

The Lake This Week Average clarity and temp dropped slightly this week – the lake level continued to drop – and HAB reports came in throughout the week. The drought has continued and we now have a burn ban in

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Water Quality Update for Friday, September 26th 2025

The Lake This Week Well Fall officially arrived to start the week and we have finally gotten some much needed rain at the end of this week – however the lake level continues to be very low. Earlier this week

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Water Quality Update for Friday September 19th, 2025

The Lake This Week While it sure was a beautiful week with sunny weather – unfortunately that same sunny weather was ideal for HAB formation – and we had a number of HABs reported this week. The average lake temperature

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Water Quality Update for Friday, September 12th 2025

The Lake This Week As the nights continue to cool off – the lake’s average water temperature keeps going down – pushing the thermocline deeper (more about this below). Average water clarity improved this week again which is nice to

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Water Quality Update for Friday, September 5th 2025

The Lake This Week We hope you had a lovely Labor Day Holiday at the beginning of the week. The mornings are getting cooler, the leaves are starting to change color, pumpkins and mums are popping up at the farm

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