Florida LakeWatch is a volunteer water quality monitoring program that has been in service for many years. Typically, a LakeWatch volunteer
is someone who lives on the target body of water and has access and free time
to be able to take samples and readings from the lake once each month.
LakeWatch will train the volunteer on how to take the readings and samples, and
they will also provide all the equipment necessary to do this. For my lake, it
takes me about an hour to do it each month (and I usually couple it with a bit
of fishing while I’m out there).
LakeWatch does not have an active volunteer for either Lake Brooklyn or Lake Geneva. Last time Lake Brooklyn was sampled was 2007, and 2005 for Lake Geneva. It is easy to become a LakeWatch volunteer, so if anyone would like to learn what is involved, contact LakeWatch directly: http://lakewatch.ifas.ufl.edu/
Every body of water in Florida
should have a devoted volunteer. This is essential to establish a baseline of
data to be referenced whenever a lake comes into trouble.
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