DID YOU MISS THE LSLA ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING THIS YEAR?

The town of Gray recorded it and can be viewed on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdxqLO4cJ84

We also had a question in the chat session that I am posting for anyone who was questioning the same.

“When the brown, murky, smelly water event occurred there was a lot of discussion on the FB group about it being related to natural Spring Lake Turnover. That wasn’t mentioned at all in the discussions today. Could anyone talk to the degree to which the early May event was related to Lake Turnover? Thanks!“

Answer from Jan Slack, LSLA Water Quality Team:

That’s an excellent question. When the problem first occurred, we thought the most likely explanation was lake turnover. If that was the case, the murky water would have quickly settled out though. So by 48 hours, when there was no improvement, we knew that it was a bigger problem. We investigated further and sampled for the identification of the algae involved.

The theory of what did happen is that the combination of the short period of ice cover this winter and the rapid warmup of the lake with high temperatures in March and April caused a rapid temperature increase in the lake. The opportunistic algae had a perfect environment to grow quickly and did so. Although it happened in the same time frame that the spring turnover occurred, there isn’t any evidence that the issue came from turnover at all.If I can give you any further information.