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Lake Monitoring Program for 2003-2009
Jack Starke
 December 1, 2009 

For the past seven summers (2003-2009) monitoring has been done at Site D, the deepest point (9.3 m of water @ N42^o75000 W77.50833) in Honeoye Lake. For 2008 an additional monitoring at point Site F (6.3 m of water @ N42.73019 W77.51150) in the south end of the lake was also done. The 2003 data is from more extensive study performed by Dr. Bruce Gilman. All of the monitoring included temperature (T) and dissolved oxygen (DO) profiles from the surface to the bottom and water clarity measured using a Secchi disk. In 2003, 2007,2008, and 2009 chemical monitoring of phosphorus levels, both total phosphorus (TP) and soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP), at several depths and chlorphyll-a at the surface was also performed.. The 2003 data was prior to an alum application that was done in the fall of 2006 and 2007. This report summarizes the results of this monitoring program. All of the raw data is available in a spread sheet. 

In addition, for five years (1996-2000) a regular sampling program was done as part of NYS Citizens Statewide Assessment Program (CSLAP). The CSLAP sampling program did not measure T and DO profiles, but did include measurements of Secchi disk water clarity and some chemical sampling including phosphorus and chlorphyll-a. Deep water total phosphorus measurements were only made in a single year (1998). Some of this data is included in this report since it was pre-alum application and supplements the 2003 data in an attempt to see if the data shows an effect of the alum application. 

The chemical analysis was paid for by the Honeoye Lake Watershed Taskforce (HLWTF) in 2007, by a grant from Finger Lakes/Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance (FL-LOWPA) in 2008, and by a grant from Ontario County Water Resources Council in 2009. The CSLAP sampling from 1996-2000 was paid for by New York State as part of their program to collect baseline data for many of the lakes in NYS. 

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