As many of you noticed, there was a watercraft inspector at Ellsworth Landing most Friday, Saturday, and Sundays during the summer. On some days the DNR had a decontamination station at the landing as well. DNR decontamination unit: The inspectors were looking for and helping folks decontaminate their watercraft, clean off weeds, drain water out of live wells & bait buckets, and ensure drain plugs were in or out. Our I-LIDS system captured over 4900 … Read More

Water clarity this spring was quite good, but not as clear as last spring. 10 feet in 2019 compared to 14.5 feet in 2018. As the summer progressed the water gradually became less clear as you can see in the chart. Water Clarity for 2019: Clarity measurements are taken at 5 sites around the lake and those measurements are averaged. For the average, we do not use measurements where the secchi disk hits bottom. Many … Read More

Watershed has received some very helpful people to make the committee more valuable to the Lake members. A Water database will be developed by Cindy Hewitt so we are able to keep all data we collect from testing water entering the lake plus keep data that Dave Rathe’s testing of the lake in general. Dave, Mike Wosmek and Skip Sustacek all take part at helping with the water samples being tested. Then we can’t forget … Read More

It turns out that there are not one, but two problems with Eurasian Water Milfoil. Firstly, when it grows to the top of the water, its clumps impede all sorts of water activity. It can even be dangerous to swimmers getting tangled up in it. Fortunately, during the last couple of years we have not had such a problem. A second category of problem is that the plants break off during the summer and float … Read More