March Lake Level Control Sub-Committee Meeting

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Lake Level Control Sub-Committee Meeting Minutes
March 12, 2014

Members present include Dave Emick, Tim Langer, Gil Kendrac and Chairman Rick Gainar. Also present were Dell Rogers and Ed Baitt.

Meeting called to order at 2PM at the Association Office.

Items discussed:

  1. Rick Gainar described the development of the Lake Roaming Rock Data Base on which Walt Samson and Rick are currently working. It is an MS Excel spreadsheet containing all lake measurements and samples taken over the years. The database will function as a repository for lake information – past and future from which data may be extracted for analysis in other programs or reports.
  2. Rick described the stream-testing project he and Rick Herd are currently developing. The goal of this project is to obtain information on the amount of nutrients entering the lake via the tributaries as opposed to internal loading.
  3. The Pine Lake Restoration Project was reviewed. Pine Lake (Alberta, Canada) is a large, stratified lake in Canada experiencing excessive algae and nutrient loading. The first Canadian hypolimnetic withdrawal (siphon) system was installed in 1998 and proved to be effective but did not improve conditions as much as they wanted due to external loading of nutrients from the watershed.

Our next meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 2:00PM. Our regular meeting date is the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the Association Office so mark your calendars!

Meeting was adjourned at 3:30PM

by RD Gainar on December 13, 2013