WATER QUALITY UPDATE August 20, 2022 Current Lake Conditions: Harmful Algae Blooms: No Blooms Reported Average Secchi Disk Water Clarity: 6.0 meters Average Surface Water Temperature: 76.0 F Lake Level: 687.89 feet above sea level (desired level 688.46) Main gates have been closed all summer and…
Current Lake Conditions: Harmful Algae Blooms: No Blooms Reported Average Secchi Disk Water Clarity: 6.28 meters Average Surface Water Temperature: 76.3 F Lake Level: 687.92 feet above sea level (desired level 688.5) – Drought conditions have substantially reduced inflow to the lake, direct…
WATER QUALITY UPDATE August 5, 2022 Current Lake Conditions: Harmful Algae Blooms: No Blooms Reported Average Secchi Disk Water Clarity: 5.82 meters Average Surface Water Temperature: 77.4 F Lake Level: 687.98 feet above sea level Good afternoon everyone! We will keep this week’s update short and…
WATER QUALITY UPDATE July 29, 2022 Current Lake Conditions: Harmful Algae Blooms: No Blooms Reported Average Secchi Disk Water Clarity: 5.25 meters Average Surface Water Temperature: 76.3 F Lake Level: 688.12 feet above sea level We’ve had a lot of touchpoints around the lake this week…
WATER QUALITY UPDATE July 22, 2022 Current Lake Conditions: Harmful Algae Blooms: No Blooms Reported Average Secchi Disk Water Clarity: 4.47 meters Average Surface Water Temperature: 75.2 F Lake Level (as reported by the City of Canandaigua Wastewater Treatment Facility on 7/18/22): Current level:…
WATER QUALITY UPDATE July 15, 2022 Current Lake Conditions: Harmful Algae Blooms: No Blooms Reported Average Secchi Disk Water Clarity: 5.68 meters Average Surface Water Temperature: 74.6 F Lake Level (as reported by the City of Canandaigua Wastewater Treatment Facility on 7/11/22): Current…
Abby Webster is a PhD student at SUNY ESF studying benthic and attached cyanobacteria in the Finger Lakes. She works closely with the team at the Finger Lakes Institute in Geneva to conduct her field work, and last summer, deployed…
Last week’s rains, ranging from 4-7 inches across the watershed, brought the lake level up by 1.8 feet. In recent days, the lake level reached a high of 689.84 (feet above sea level) and as of today (11/2) it is…
Water Quality Update for October 15, 2021 Welcome to the final Friday Water Quality Update of the season. Last week, we reported on a significant bloom event that started on Monday October 4th– occurring mostly on the west of the…
Although we are in-between our regularly scheduled Friday updates, we wanted to report that we have been seeing harmful algae blooms along the shoreline the last two days. Conditions have been relatively calm, but a subtle northeast wind means we…