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Map of Snorkel Swims around Assembly Point from 2011-2018 (initials indicate those who have participated in the swims); small green circles and green boxes indicate the 2017 swims and round blue circles are the 2018 swims. The 5th annual snorkel swim was funded by the Lake Champlain Basin Program for season 2018. Please see www.facebook.com/lakegeorgealgaewatchers for algae sitings and comments by residents around the lake.
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Assembly Point Water
Quality Coalition Snorkel Swims July/August/Sept 2018,2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014 |
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As residents learn to observe and identify conditions of possible concern off their own shorelines through annual snorkeling, first hand information about the changing underwater conditions will be accumulated. Algal samples and water testing taken by residents to approved labs are showing levels of various types of pollution, including coliform and ecoli. Professional consultants are helping us note possible source points of pollution.
In 2014 Assembly Point and Diamond Point residents, along with a professional diver and local environmental captain, Bob Tully boated and swam shorelines along the southern basin up to the Narrows. Throughout the summer algae and water samples were taken and compiled onto a spread sheet (inventory coming in summer 2015 below).
In July 2015 members of the APWCQCoalition snorkeled and swam with diver, Kathy Bozony. Please note the files below which summarize the findings, including an inventory of algae and water samples.
What is one concrete way for Lake side residents to take personal action in relation to degenerating water quality in Lake George?
Get in the water with a mask and swim around your shoreline. Take a look at your ladders, boat bottoms and the ends of your dock, and then note patches of algae on the once sandy lake bottom or on the rocks. If residents around Lake George begin to check their own shorelines for changing and questionable conditions, we can create a grassroots lakewide team of concerned and active residents able to inform their communities and officials about changing underwater conditions. Algae is one indicator of excessive nutrient load coming from land use, from fertilizer, storm water run off or faulty septic. There are ways to test both the algae and the water itself for organic pollution.
In 2014 Assembly Point and Diamond Point residents, along with a professional diver and local environmental captain, Bob Tully boated and swam shorelines along the southern basin up to the Narrows. Throughout the summer algae and water samples were taken and compiled onto a spread sheet (inventory coming in summer 2015 below).
In July 2015 members of the APWCQCoalition snorkeled and swam with diver, Kathy Bozony. Please note the files below which summarize the findings, including an inventory of algae and water samples.
What is one concrete way for Lake side residents to take personal action in relation to degenerating water quality in Lake George?
Get in the water with a mask and swim around your shoreline. Take a look at your ladders, boat bottoms and the ends of your dock, and then note patches of algae on the once sandy lake bottom or on the rocks. If residents around Lake George begin to check their own shorelines for changing and questionable conditions, we can create a grassroots lakewide team of concerned and active residents able to inform their communities and officials about changing underwater conditions. Algae is one indicator of excessive nutrient load coming from land use, from fertilizer, storm water run off or faulty septic. There are ways to test both the algae and the water itself for organic pollution.
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