Durrance Lake
Sunny

Moyie Lake
Sun and cloud
Warm and dry

Kalamalka Lake
Sun and cloud
Light rain intermittent

Durrance Lake
Sun and cloud

Okanagan Lake
Cloudy

Champion Lakes - Third Lake
Cloudy
The lake was very high compared to last year.
I have signed up for a Tier 2 this year but this lake is in a provincial parka and is gated until June 1. I will do Tier 1 in May and possibly again in September when the gate closed. I will do Tier 2 when the gate opens.

Saugum Lake
Sunny
Wind was calm, no rain in the past 7 days.

Breakneck Lake
Breezy from south (20-30 km/hr). Has been very dry. Wildfires and smoke in the region but clear air today. No pollen in lake.
No wildlife. Loons, eagles and waterfowl returned a couple of weeks ago but are currently nesting. Evidence of otter and many mussel shells. Will need to ID species of mussel off site.

Killarney
Started out very overcast then cleared up and got sunny and warm by the time I left.
American Bullfrog (Lithobates c
Yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus)
I know there are freshwater jellyfish (invasive) at this lake but I didn’t see any today. They typically hang out at the far end of the lake in deeper, colder waters- the area where the water was very cloudy and green today.
Other wildife sightings- Pine Siskin, American Robin, brown creeper, Bewick's wren, bald eagle, glaucous winged gull, turkey vulture, and Swainson's thrush.

Albion Lake
Sunny

Lake Lewis
Cold, strong north wind
Trees are just budding out.

Kalamalka Lake
pH taken using HTH 6-way test stripd. Total hardness 100; Alkalinity 240

Lower Arrow Lake
Cloudy

Spurr Lake
Cool at night

Munro Lake
Birds reported were identified via Merlin. Also saw a Raven flying over the lake. I am unsure of the type of mollusc observed.

Okanagan Lake
Light rain
Sample location shifted to closer inshore than normal due to the dock being closed

One Mile Lake
Light rain
I did not take measurements today as my healing broken arm is not up to rowing yet

Head Lake
Thelake ice went out this morning. First day the lake has been ice free in 2025

Head Lake
Strong NE wind and possible lake turn over

Alice Lake
other

Head Lake
Seems like an early golden algae event

Cold at night, down to 3C. bottom temp reading higher than the surface temp reading owing to the cold temps last night.
lake very clear

Tea Lake

Suzanne Lake
Light rain
It’s been raining all morning and is now cloudy and sunny. No

Lac Cardinal
Calm breeze

Whitewater Lake

Bob's Lake
campsites close to shoreline.

Alice Lake
sunny/calm
This is Angel Lake data and photos not Alice. Would not let me send without filling in lake name. In this case there was no Angel Lake so i submitted (Alice)

Charlie Lake
Sunny and windy

Burnaby Lake
Fragrant water lily (Nymphaea o

Lac Tremblant
I used a hommade secchi disc as my kit hadn't arrived before I left for the lake

Moyie Lake

Lake Scugog
Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophy

Lake Simcoe
Extreme winds. Weather dropped by 25degrees overnight. Windy cold. Mist rain

Blysteiner Lake

Mid 20s last week but down to 3C last night with a cold NE wind.

Lake Muskoka
Has been cold and rainy

Singush Lake

Baptiste Lake
Unable to gather secchi data

Echo Lake

Christina Lake
spring high water conditions exist

McConnell Lake
Dissolved oxygen test indicates 8-10 PPM
Large tree fell and cut up along left shoreline.
Water level seems low for this time of year.

Stake Lake
Dissolved oxygen test indicates 10-12 PPM

Lac le Jeune
Dock was taped off, could not access to do survey.

Walloper Lake
Dissolved Oxygen test indicates 8-10 PPM

Okanagan Lake

Bob's Lake
In the shallow arms there are 3 different tiny fish. I am not sure if they are all stickleback. The red one seems to be one.
The only change is the water is higher. My thermometer is not working .
Last inspection there was several frogs. None this time.
Salal and Bog Laurel starting to bud.
Scouring rush, Ferns, Lung Lichen, juniper, Cedar, Pine, Fir

Angel Lake
Spike Bentgrass, Hair Bentgrass, ferns, sedge, scouring rush, strawberry, buttercups, Rose, dandelion

Saugum Lake
Cool weather since last observation with rain storms.
Small patches of Celery Grass was seem. See picture.

Lac Cardinal
Light breeze

York Lake
Slight breeze.
None.

Alpha Lake

Good Spirit Lake
Slight breeze
Unable to use Secchi Disc at this spot. Hopefully better next time.

Lac Tremblant

Albion Lake

Breakneck Lake
Lightly smoky from nearby fires, significant drought.

Lake Lewis
Sun came out, temp increased, black flies appeared.

Christina Lake
Clear

Kalamalka Lake
Motor boat activity had picked up. Alkalinity 240; hardness 100

Arrow Lakes

Up

Wascana Lake

Durrance Lake
Windy too!

One Mile Lake
Due to healing broken arm I could not row to the middle of the lake.
Birds were in the wetland part of the lake. The othervbirds are common yellow throat, yellow warbler & northern rough-wing swallow.
All birds recorded with Merlin App.

Crag Lake
Very windy couldn’t do secchi disk or subsurface temperature

One Mile Lake
This is the opposite, western, side of One Mile Lake from my 4pm observations.
I cannot row my boat to the middle of the lake so I did obs on the eastern side as well as this on the western side

Samples from main dock again. Floating dock sample site is on is now detached from the main dock.

Lower Arrow Lake

Killarney
American Bullfrog (Lithobates c
Yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus)
Birds in addition to those above: golden crowned kinglet, song sparrow, pine siskin, glaucous winged gull. (1 juvenile and 1 adult bald eagle; at lake edge same place as last survey).
The same Common garter snake was resting in the same spot where it was 2 weeks ago!
The water colour has changed since last survey; no longer green across from lake.

Lake Ontario
other

Lake Nipissing
Several days of rain

Sesekinika Lake

60 mm of rain in the last week
Bluegills and pumpkin seeds are in shallow staging for the spawn

Spurr Lake
5 days of rain

Whitewater Lake
Has been very windy amd cool until last night

Lillian Lake
Very windy
One swimmer.

Jimsmith Lake
Windy 22-18 km/hr
Lake activity on a windy day: dragon boat, kayak

Kootenay Lake
Calm
other
Lake surface level 531.2 m asl (FortisBC)

Burnaby Lake
below average temps this spring. Rain earlier in the day and the day before.
Yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus)

Box Lake
Conductivity 140 ? s/cm
Dissolved oxygen 10mg/l
Total chlorine 10ppm
Akalinity 80ppm
Hardnes 100ppm

Kootenay Lake
Calm
There were pollen swirls in the water at the shoreline.
This was a demo sampling for an intro session with Kaite Martin for new volunteers.
Lake level was 531.21m asl (FortisBC)

Alice Lake
It has been above normal temps the last two days. 25C and 30C

Munro Lake
Unsure of type of mollusc

Lake Dore

Lake Dore
Windy

~5 paddle boarding on the lake

Baptiste Lake
Unable to collect Secchi data

Baptiste Lake
Windy
Unable to get Secchi readings -- at least 2 m. Recovery from surgery continues.....Will get onto water as soon as I can.

Blysteiner Lake
Significant rain the day before
Lots of pollen and tree buds/small leaves floating on top due to yesterday’s all day rain storm

Cottonwood Lake
Very warm previous two days

Kootenay Lake West Arm
Very warm previous two days

Cottonwood Lake
Large rain system 40 hours prior to collection

Kootenay Lake West Arm
Large rain event 40 hours prior to collection

Kootenay Lake
Slight breeze
Lake level rising. 531.94 (FortisBc)
2 pairs of Canada goose with 18 goslings between them

Lake Muskoka
Hazy. It’s been cold and suddenly hot today

Scout Lake
We heard frogs and a shorebird.
We have not received the Secchi Disk.

It was 3C degrees , quite cold last night. Steam on the water this morning
The loon is nesting on the lake this year.

Tyson Lake
Our coattage location (no internet or cell at the cottage so have to send info from town and this app only allows current location) 46.07.17.38N / 81.04.06.60W

Arrow Lakes
Major wind storm May 31. Caused significant shore errosion, lots of floating debri and turbid water.

Tyson Lake

Lake Dore
Wildfire haze

Lake Lewis

Heat wave starting tiday
Lots of tree pollen along the shoreline

Smoke from fires - no clouds but sky grey. Shore in distance looks blue and sun is weak. Sunset feel in modafternoon.
Lots of pollen visible in and on water.

Kootenay Lake West Arm
Continued hot weather

Cottonwood Lake
Very warm weather starting

Hazing from forest fires so not as much sunny for the secchi disc reading

Arrow Lakes
Very hot (30c)

Lake Scugog
Had heavy rain all last week and weekend.
Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophy
Secchi disk reached bottom at 130 cm

Lillian Lake
Little bit of wind
Dead crayfish, song sparrow

York Lake
Windy, smoky.
European Common Reed (Phragmite

Very windy
Unable to get on the water to use Secchi disc.
I will try to do a monitoring this coming weekend.

It has been unusually hot the past week.
Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus

Prospect Lake

Christina Lake
slight smoke haze
pollen on water surface

Saugum Lake
Overnight rain storm.
Clarity of the water was slightly turbid, possibly from the rain storm last night.

Breakneck Lake
Beautiful, calm, warm day! No rain for about a week but we did have lots last weekend and that broke a month-long drought. Local fires also extinguished in the past few days so not smoky or ashy anymore. Lots of pollen though!
Due to severe drought in May, water level in lake is at the low end of normal. Secchi readings are with disc sitting on lake bottom at end of dock where water is usually 2.6+ m deep. Pine and maple trees are shedding lots of pollen and water is thick with pollen in upper stratum of the column.

Cub Lake
Smoky from fires in BC
NOTE:
We have not received the Secchi Disk.

Scout Lake
Very smoky from fires in BC.
We heard a Swainson's Thrush, confirmed by Merlin.

Alpha Lake
No, but nearby forest fires in Squamish have brought in a lot of smoke.

Killarney
American Bullfrog (Lithobates c
At least 11 bald eagles were at the
waters edge on stumps or in trees or flying over the lake, including many juveniles. Apparently they spend time at /scavenge at Heartland landfill nearby and come here too. Also saw the Puget Sound garter snake swimming in the lake.
American Robin
American crow
Common Raven
Bald Eagle (7 juveniles, 4 adults)
Violet green swallow
Song sparrow
Chestnut-backed chickadee
Brown creeper
Red-breasted nuthatch
Dark-eyed junco
White-crowned sparrow

Singush Lake
Calm
Even though we are in a park with rules to not alter the share line people do and we noticed over the winter one cottage dragged tires and filled them with sand reinforcing and altering the shoreline.

Albion Lake
Light wind

Tea Lake
Hazy from wildfire smoke, lots of pollen floating on the water

Whitewater Lake
We are in the middle of tent caterpillar season. All the poplar trees are stripped of leaves.

Skaha Lake
Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophy
Lots of boats

Storm predicted
Lake level is 532.3m asl today(FortisBC)

The lake is green from snow melt.

More birds yellow warbler, cedar waxwing, veery, pine siskin, northern flicker, willow flycatcher, purple finch, Black-headed gosbeak & white-crowned sparrow.
Various tiny insects. Cotton wood fluff in the air & lake. Yellow pollen on the lake.
Start time includes walking half way around lake recording bird song/sounds

Crag Lake
Very smoky
Found a skeleton of a young moose or caribou along the shore
Saw or heard many more birds: chickadees, junco, orange and yellow crowned warblers, sparrows (chipping and song), etc.

Lillian Lake
We have had rain storms and tremendous wind storms.
It was my first time with the secchi disk so I hope I did correctly. Lake was very calm at this time thus easy to be clear.

First sunny weekend!

We had an early heat warning between the last monitoring I did and this one.

Spurr Lake

Jimsmith Lake
Calm water, no wind, some clouds
Other birds: osprey, mallard ducks, redwing blackbird, crow/raven
Invasive species: I looked at the pictures in the manual after the fact of doing the observation and there may be some plants but I will check again on my next visit.
there was not evidence of other invasive species.

Echo Lake
ph wasn't taken because the probe wasn't working (hopefully just battery issue)

Clear
Off the dock

Munro Lake
Very hazy with wildfire smoke. Bad air quality for days.
Merlin picked up bird but is a typical bird for our area these days.

Cooler days and very cold nights (frost warnings) leading up to measurement day.
The night before the midges were a huge cloud above the water and the lake was a constant buzz. Many dragon fly nymphs emerging from the lake (normal amount of them). Also saw a stripped fishing spider, ants and the mollusc was a Mimic Lymnaea according to INaturalist. Also lots of house flies with red eyes - tons of them. The crows have a nest of young ones close by as I hear them. Also saw Merlin bird (as identified by Merlin App) but these weren't in the list to select.
Saw two types of minnows as well. In the early morning before measurement time there were a few small mouth bass (3) under the dock - all between 1/2 - probably 1 lb. The next morning (Sunday) there were 5 small mouth bass under the dock. Pictures uploaded to iNaturalist as part of this project.
Unable to do clarity tests at this time as boat that I borrow is not in the water yet (needs repairs). Water is extremely clear though - can see bottom when in over 30 feet of water (when swimming).

The pumpkins seeds are spawning and guarding there nests in the shallows. 37 nests over 121' of shoreline.

Redstone Lake
Heard wolf pups yipping

Lower Arrow Lake
Windy today - causing choppy water.
Water level in lake had risen considerably since last observation.

Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus

Windy and wavey
This was yesterday so posission is not correct.
I had to attach the thermometer to my paddle or the current took it on an angle.

Bob's
Was late this time because bear was in the area. No one at the campsite. No water birds noted or heard. I did speak to a man that had been on the lake and he said it is clear right to the bottom of the lake. Did not see any minnows or sticklebacks in the shallows this time.
Thermometer not working.

Gardom Lake
Water level is high

Gardom Lake

Angel Lake
very quiet today . I did not see any live minnows or sticklebacks today. One dead trout minnow. Was late with data .

Burnaby Lake
cloudy in AM, no recent significant rain
Fragrant water lily (Nymphaea o
Routine water-weed harvesting was underway to keep the rowing lanes clear.

Rundle Forebay Reservoir

Champion Lakes - Third Lake
It's been difficult to access this year with road and park construction hampering my second May readings. Starting next monitoring day I should be in the boat and doing my Tier 2 monitorings. Apologies!

There was a forest fire nearby and Alice Lake Provincial Park was closed for aprrox. 1 week

Katepwa Lake
A few short storms - rain, wind.

Storms and heat forecast

Heavy rain the past 24 hours

York Lake
Cool, calm and wet.
European Common Reed (Phragmite

Heavy rain 24 hours prior

30C+ for the next few days
Most Pumpkinseeds have finished spawning

Saw more birds: song sparrow, chipping sparrow, common yellowthroat, dark eyes junco, warbling vireo, a flycatcher (not sure which species). Lake may have seemed a little greener than the last time but very minimal

Lake Muskoka
It’s Been extremely hot humid ex of 42C

Sturgeon Lake
Record heat for 2 days

Good Spirit Lake
Breezy
Unable to use secchi disc today.

Tyson Lake
Intense thunderstorm Saturday evening, June 21

Extreme heat warning for June 23

Received 20 mm rain in the past few days. The lake level peaked in the last week and has now receeded about 6” from peak.

Heavy rains with hail past 72 hours.

Very quiet

Gardom Lake
Water level has dropped 1”

Light wind

Some fog and wind
Rainy weekends continue🙁
Too windy on the lake for Secchi disk observation.

Windy
High boat traffic

Sesekinika Lake
Heavy rains 2 days ago

Sesekinika Lake
Heavy rain two days ago

Warm (29-30C) days, breezy, huge rainfall and storms a week ago but no rain in past few days.

hardness (results TH = 100) and Alkalinity (results Alk=240).- The test method/tool used that was the HTH 6-way test strips.

Cub Lake

Scout Lake
We also heard a Grey-Crowned Rosy Finch and saw a Spotted Sandpiper.

Skaha Lake

Yellow pondlily, which are native to B.C. have spead further than last year. They cover about 10% of the lake.

In the last few days, went from very humid to cool. Had very June 27th, high winds (50km gusts at times) for about 24 hours with rain, heavy at times. Sunny today but high humidity back again.
No access to a boat yet. Water clarity is not as good today - a little murky. Windy and waving and very windy the last few days.
Water level has reached high level - higher than Spring ice melt. Highest level in years. Lots of dragonflies and lots of those house flies with red eyes.
Also saw some type of egg blob attached to a tree branch submersed under water. I took notice of it earlier in the week as the dragonflies seemed to be swarming above it and dropping into the water above it. Uploaded to inaturalist.

Wind strong enough to move branches on the trees.
More people at the lake than last time

Very hot 30C+ this past week
Once the boats started moving around the lake a making waves hitting the shore it seemed to mix the surface with the deeper water and the surface temp dropped to 25C

Moyie Lake
Lots of wakesurfing boats this weekend

Crag Lake

pH with litmus paper.
Water is slightly murkey. Lots of boat traffic
Lake lev ~532.2m asl

Unusually high temperatures for 2 days last week

Lake Scugog
Secchi depth at bottom, 110.5 cm

Katepwa Lake
Cool, cloudy and windy spring and early summer.
The form won't accept my entries of Barn Swallows, Carp fish, and 13 Lined Ground Squirrels.

Heavy rainstorms and extreme heat
Clarity and ph of lake seem off; thinking it has to do with the storms amd alot of rain amd wind

Lac Cardinal
Very windy and choppy water

Lake Huron

Lake level still very high.

Alpha Lake
The secchi disk reached the bottom of the lake before I lost sight of it. The water was visibly more clear today even just observing from the shoreline. Depth at observation point was 565cm

Champion Lakes - Third Lake
Very hot the last 2 days.
Very busy at the lake today with it being Canada Day. Many, many out on their watercraft of all types enjoying the hot weather.

Clear
Thanks!

Longpine Lake

Yellow Lake
some rain

Yellow Lake
2 days of rain and some down pours.

Yellow Lake
mix of rainy days and sunny days

very warm week

warm weather, above normal by 2-5 degrees C
Fragrant water lily (Nymphaea o
I forgot to bring the Secchi disk!

Aylesford Lake

Aylesford Lake
High wind

cloudy and rainy the last few days. I tried earlier in the day, but there was a small bear cub nearby on opposite shore so came back at end of day with more folks in tow

Breezy
European Common Reed (Phragmite

Cool & windy yesterday; 7mm rain in the past week
School's out and fishing season open - increase in motorboat traffic.

Redstone Lake

Katepwa Lake
Very smoky

PWC traffic at high speed close to shoreline

Madge Lake
18.5 degrees C. Broken cloud. Light wind out of the west

Good Spirit Lake
Light breeze.

Very Hot for the last few days with some scattered down pours of 6mm

Lake Ontario
Hot day, evening

Some rain overnight

Sturgeon Lake

Chitek Lake
Hot day yesterday (30 C)
Windy today (NW 23km gusting to 30 km)
I could hear a few variety of song birds but could not see them in the trees. The lake is lower and has dropped about 2 inches since Maylong weekend. I have seen a lot of minnows in the last couple of weeks but not today unfortunately.

Kioshkowi Lake
No wind

Heavy rain storms and strong north winds since last report on June 27, 2025.
Lymnaea, (Great Pond Snail), was seen on the north shore near the boat launch.
Water level was up ~10cm since last monitoring report.
South end of the lake was very turbid, possibly from the recent rain events and north winds.

Light cloud to north

Madge Lake
Breeze out of the west. Lots of smoke from northern fires
Water clarity photo taken at BW2

I moved 50m from original location as it was too shallow and could see secchi disk at bottom for second week in a row

Hot airmass

Very smoky. Have been under extreme air quality warnings since Thursday (July 10) from wildfire smoke. Also has been very hot and little rain.

Rain

Lake Ontario
Thunderstorm and rain in morning

PH taken with HTH 6-way test strips. Hardness 100 and Alkalinity 240

We’ve had a run of warm, dry weather over the past month

Extremely hot, humid weather for days leading up to July 12 2025. Some thunderstorms with rain at times.
Wind gusts into 30 kms at times. Stormy day - low lying clouds moving quickly through the region most of the day.
Still no access to a boat to do secchi disk.

Overcast, it has been cloudy and hot the last few days. Around 28 degrees as a high

Cloud covered the sun during measurements
Fish seen are salmon fry

Additional birds heard/seen: swainson's thrush, brown creeper.
Other native wildlife: swallowtail butterfly, damselflies
As the summer gets warmer there are more people at the lake and dogs. (approx 20 people on shore/swimming).

Not much greener than the last survey

Singush Lake
Smoke is heavy due to wild fires in. Orthern Manitoba. Breezy today
Lake levels are low. It is very dry and with the forest fires burning in Manitoba there is a high level of concern.

The clouds are over the sun during measurements
Red-wing blackbird, veery, american robin, cedar waxwing, song sparrow, common yellowthroat, pine siskin
Ants, flies,

Firesmoke haze

Rain storm earlier in the day.
Due to the storm and the winds with the rain, the water was stirred up, not as clear as usual.

Extreme heat and smog from fires

Heavy rain showers

Yesterday was high winds and 16 mm rain

no rain and very dry

Longpine Lake
Dense smoke

Echo Lake
Heat warning, poor air quality due to wildfire smoke, haze

Lake level is high due to Beaver activity in the creek

Extreme wind storm 2 days ago on Monday night July 14, 2025.

Above seasonal temp. No clouds.

Level dropped 1”

Hot yesterday

Humid

Has been unusually hot 0ver 35C for several days followed by thunderstorm today is much cooler
Water lilies starting to grow

Week-long heat wave broke 48 hrs ago

9C on Thursday night

The lake level has risen noticeably with this past week’s heavy rains.

Jimsmith Lake

Chitek Lake
It has been quite cool for last 3 days (1C! For low and averaging 16-18C for highs) and smoky air.
Unusually chilly and cool wind!

Bob's Lake

Angel Lake
17 Celsius
Lovely lake. Lots of minnows of various colours. Probably trout jumping further out in lake.

Hazy due to smoke

Extreme heat 40C plus with humidex followed by thunderstorm

Some haze in distanxe - possibly from forest fires?

Madge Lake
Moderate wind from west
Relatively high boat activity today

It has been a hot week with a number of days up to 30C and limited rain
Ski boats causing littoral are turbidity

Rain forecast
Lake level ~531 m asl

Wind

Been hot

Lots of rain this past week but not in the last 2 days
More boats on the lake this weekend

Overcast and hazy from wild fires

Heavy rain earlier in week.
Unable to do secchi disk measurement due back injury and cannot get into kayak, needed to get to depth needed. Temp measurement taken from pier, about 200m in from buoy where i normally paddle out to. Harness 100 and pH beteen 8.4 and 9 using HTH 6-way test strips

Light rain earlier this morning

Box Lake
Conductivity 136
Dissolved oxygen 10
Chlorine 0
Hardness between 100 & 200

Windy from south, hot!
Not sure I can trust ph readings as instrument won’t calibrate in buffer solutions. Either the buffer powders are expired or wrongly labelled or the electrode needs replacing??

Beautiful summer day!

Hot airmass
Lake continues to drop

The snow melt has become morw cloudy with sediment.

Our lake has very little weed growth this year and the water is very clear. There seems to be more lily pads

Other birds, white crowned sparrow, willow flycatcher, pine siskin, song sparrow, common yellowthroat, veery, spotted towhee, purple finch

Sturgeon Lake
Exteme heat

Heat warning for the past 3 days
In the past couple of years there have been patches of algae; this year there is no algae at all.
Also the clarity of the wayer is measuring lower because of the time of day.

Very little rain for last 2 weeks; however night temps have gone to mid-teens at night. Very hot during days. Heat wave warning in effect as of yesterday until Thursday.
There was an unconfirmed report of blue green algae down the other end of the lake but no one seen where I am

The reptile I observed today was the western painted turtle, common and native to this lake. Busy at the lake today with the good weather.

Really windy and wavey

Lots of rain this week
The water level is higher

seasonal temp
busy day at the site: paddleboard regatta.

It has been a rainy week prior to the monitoring day, with cool evenings and mornings.
Despite the cloud and previous rain, the lake was warm.

McConnell Lake
Test strips read:
pH ~8.4
Alkalinity between 80-120ppm
Hardness ~100 ppm

Stake Lake
Test strips read:
pH ~8.4
Alkalinity between 80-120ppm
Hardness ~200 ppm

Lac le Jeune
Dissolved Oxygen test result 10-12 ppm (mg/L)
Test strip results:
pH ~7.5
Alkalinity between 80-120 ppm
Hardness ~100

Walloper Lake
Test strip results:
pH between 6.8-7.2
Alkalinity between 40-80 ppm
Hardness 0

Extreme heat last few days (35*C+).

Paul Lake

Charlie Lake
Rain, wind
depth (m). temp. (deg C) Dissolved O2 (mg/L)
0.3 20 10.3
1 20 11.3
2 19 10.5
3 18 9.1
Alkalinity 80 ppm
Hardness 50 ppm
Conductivity 203 uS

Slocan Lake

Kioshkowi Lake
Light Breeze today.
Yesterday was quite windy and stormy.

Rain overnight

Very hazy from forest fire smoke

Overcast, hazy (smoke from wildfires), very little rain in the past couple of weeks so water level is lowering.

Heavy rain and lightning storms over the past 36 hours

Windy.

Chitek Lake
Light rain this morning off and on. Later this afternoon the sun was showing and no clouds. Wind is calm. Last two days were +30 with humid of +35
During the hot days the lake surface looked like it had multiples of dead egg-like covering. Not like an algae but more sand like look. Once it cooled down the surface debris disappear and the lake was clear again.

forest fire smoke is heavy and partially filtering the sun

Alouette Lake
I used a different thermometer than was provided because I accidentally broke the first one when leaning on the bag the first time I went out. I used a floating pool thermometer and weighed it down so that it would not float; I am unsure if the measurements were as precise as they would have been on the thermometer provided. I also had to estimate the coordinates because my secondhand handheld GPS stopped working recently and I haven't gotten a chance to replace it yet so this time I used bearing lines to stay in the same approximate location from shore but could not measure my exact coordinates.

Extremely smoky!

SW wind - very windy.
Water very high again. Extremely humid days and very cool nights
Secchi disk measurements taken later in the day on July 27 (different day from rest of measurements).

No rain; woods closed due to forest fire danger.
Seems that there still are some leeches near the shore; fewer than in the past.

Veey humid. Heat warning

Hazy due to wildfire smoke

Forest fire smoke. Fairly strong winds

First day of forecasted heatwave. Fire ban in place.

Recent cold front and unsettled weather

Cool 17C nights and hot day with no rain, drought
Temps are done at the location on the map but secchi disc readings are done at the deepest point in the lake( Zmax 4.6m)

Unseasonably cool weather previous 48 hours

Extreme heat

Very hot

Very hot
Saw 17 loons all together

Very hot for the past 6 days

Box Lake
A fisher person said they are stocking the lake with kokanee that are too small and they are being eaten by brookies.

NS has been experiencing a severe drought for past month and a half
Lake surprisingly clear given high daytime temps and no rain. Levels are as low as I have seen in 20 years. Last week has seen lownnight temps (11-14), so I believe this has helped slow algae growth.

Continuing haze from forest fire smoke. Moderate wind from west

Beautiful Summer day
PH done w/ litmus paper.
Lake level 531.3m asl
Invasives managed by VOK

No wind
Harder to hear birds as there were a lot of people on shore. Lake seemed darker

Slight wind (branches moving)
A lot of people at the lake, could barely hear any birds because of user noise.

European Starling (Sturnus vulg
I know the lake has beavers but I don't see them when I do my observations but I did see proof of beaver activity today.
Common Yellow throat, eastern kingbird, stellar jay
Flies, ants,varioua beetles,

It has rained each day the past week with cool night time temperatures as low as 6 degrees.
Rusty Crayfish (Orconectes rust
A clump of aspen trees appeared to be barren by the wetlands as in photo

Very smoky, strong wind from south
My ph meter isn’t working. Will find a different solution for measuring ph.

Heat wave

Again, apologies as I didn't have access to a boat so had to revert to a Tier 1 observation.

above seasonal temp recently. no wildfire smoke though. which is nice.
Summer trip days coming up so my last collection of Aug will be 30-31 weekend.

Heat warning for over 1 week; no rain in 30 days
Water at a very low level

Longpine Lake
Rain storm

Smoky

It's been VERY hot and dry. Lake level is low.
very hot and dry summer

Wildfire smoke

Very hazy out with smoke from distant wildfires.

Batteries flashed in the ph reader, might be low, reading might be off

Past 3 days were around 30 degrees

Particularly humid.

Very windy - SW wind. Been very windy last few days and hot.
Have heard cicadas in last few times of doing Lake Blitz measurements but didn't report. Too windy to do secchi disk.

Very cool breezy
The usual people garbage. Cans, bottles, wrappers and yes... dirty diapers.

30C hot with sustainaed drought all week

Slocan Lake
A drone flew over, I have concerns about How drones May be affecting wildlife, especially birds. I also felt like it was an invasion of privacy to the people at the park, not sure where the drone came from

Windy, 25C

Rain storm two days ago

Windy, had a LOT of rain in recent days!
Ph meter died so I’m using litmus paper strips - not super accurate.

Water is very clear

Heavy rain during night

Ongoing heat wave; forest very dru

Mainly cloudy and cool previous 3 days with 9 degree morning temperatures
Low lake level

We have had abnormal cool temps with lots of rain in the last week. As well as lots of rain the previous week.
There is a definite algae bloom today. Lots of larvae? like debris floating on the water. I have sent a photo via email capturing this.
I could not secure my location but it is in the same spot at the end of the dock as the previous two monitorings.

Cooler weather and cloudy previous 3 daysp

Very windy18.5
Overcast

Has been quite windy and cool in recent days

Light breeze
Last time when leaving there were tiny western toad's crossing the road to go up Box Mtn

Sunny and hot for last week. Lake already busy with bathers and motor boats
Busy wirh boats and swimmers. This would impact wildlife sightings.

Light rain off and on
Three has been significantly less tannins this year

Very Strong winds and rain

Pink Lake

The lake has beavers and I can see 2 beaver lodges. I have listed beavers.
Lots of unidentified tiny flying insect

Closer to sunset

Flies, butterfiles, tiny flying insects, ants
Evidence of young beavers practicing dam making.
Stellar jay (bird)

Very hot lake week, high 28,29C until yesterday

Very windy this weekend; wind remnants of Hurricane Erin. Wildfire smoke/haze yesterday. Too windy to go on the lake.
Water levels very low with no rain in two months.

We are in a hot spell with cooler overnight temperatures.

The absence of carp ducks and butterflies today. Not one of them.

pH by litmus paper
Hot summer day
Lake level 531.36 at Wueens Bay (FotisBC)

In second month of drought- had a bit of rainfall the day before today (but not enough)
N.S. has experienced a severe drought this summer

It has been dry for approx 8 weeks
Lake warmer than temperature outside; also visibility calculation may be low as there was glare on the lake

Very cool SW wind. Had severe thunderstorm night before last with torrential downpours. Some rain last day heavy at times - was rain, then sun, then rain etc... Been very windy the last few days as well.
Water clarity is taken where water is 130 cm. Spider was a small fishing spider.

Very hazy day, possibly distant fire smoke.

Heat wave broken but drought continues

17+ mm of rain since last data collected. Fire ban lifted.

brief rainstorm yetserday

Slight breeze.

Kioshkowi Lake
wind out of -west. Very little precipitation x 3 weeks.

Its been chilly at night. 5 degrees C
1 km away algae bloom near the exit of lake( near dam)

Redstone Lake
Cool after extended hot period
lake feeds trent severen system

Cold 8C nights and steam rising off the lake in the morning

Hot, calm.

Have had 4 days of 30 degrees celsius
Black-crowned Night Heron, Great Blue Heron, Northern Shoveler, over 1 dozen Bald Eagles, Cormorants, Pelicans, Gadwalls, Barn Swallows, Belted Kingfisher, etc. Red Squirrels, Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrels, Deer Mice. Invasive species: Creeping Bellflower, Bittersweet Nightshade.

Pink Lake
There was a man who saw a black bear in the park and warned people to not come closer. I was there but was not able to see the bear with my own eyes. However, I think that I should report this information.

inversion haze due to several days temps above seasonal
this sample was out of sequence - I missed Aug 22-24 weekend due to being out of town.

Other birds: chestnut backed chickadee, glaucous winged gull, northern flicker, Common raven, red-breasted nuthatch, spotted towhee. Notable difference from past visits is absence of swallows and only one bald eagle where there have typically been many. First time seeing mergansers and a family of wood ducks- male, female, and 2 juveniles. Also saw a dead bullfrog tadpole (photo on iNat).

Moderate wind and little forest fire smoke. Have had 5 days of cooler weather during the week with very cold nights around 5 C. Warmer last 2 days.

Recent hot spell
Moderate wildfire smoke

Very smoky this past week

Still no rain!
I mentioned earlier this summer that the small most bass appeared to have eaten all the leeches around our site. However, I have recently seen very tiny leeches in the water: no larger than the lead in a standard pencil and about 3 cm long.

Single digit old nights now

very smoky in the area - moderate to severe air quality at 7
this is an extra week as I missed at the beginning; I will still do observation this upcoming weekend as well. Thank you.

Heavy rain
Last night and today was the first time we have had any amount of rain in over two months. Daily temperatures were unusually high for this time of the year up until today
Water on shoreline has receded approximately 1.5 metres over the summer (almost double the usual)

Light smoke amd wind
Green algae

Lots of rain and windy days. After very dry and hot, humid conditions, temperatures are back to normal (but some cool days and nights last couple of weeks)

Has been warm and calm for several days, but cooling off at night

Paul Lake
Hotter than normal weather

Little Smokey
Water is lower than normal

Lots of rain in lasy 2 days. Cooler

No rain

Light wind from the East

Breeze

Smokey
pH with litmus paper

Smoke haze

Smoke past 2 weeks
Hardness 109; alkalinity 180

Whitestone Lake

Webworm in trees

It has been raining all day.
Webworms in trees,
Tiny black mothlike insects flying above lake surface.
All the birds, insects, fry, not seen due ro the rain i think.

We’ve had smoke in the area
Autumn is in the air and the birds and turtles are scarce. Only one loon remains.

Almost starting to freeze over night

Cloudy with rain over night and early morning

Light breeze. Very windy yeaterday

prolonged dry period

Clear day following a couple days of cloud and some rain.

Haze in the air due to distant wildfire smoke.

A bit cooler today after a week of high temps. Very dry.
The lake level is exceptionally low but also the water clarity is astoundingly good. Our lake is usually very dark brown / black due to high DOC but currently with the secchi disk sitting on the lake bottom, it is very visible and the water is remarkably clear (though still dark).

Extremely Windy yesterday with lots of rain ; heavy at times. Very cold last 2 nights

Very cold nights and cloudy cool days all week but warming up again as of yesterday.
Birds observed was a flock of sandhill cranes flying South.
Lots of flocks of geese flying South all week.
Couldn't do ph measurement as couldn't get ph meter to calibrate for 10 ph and out of liquid to set this calibration. No access to boat most of the summer to do lake clarity

Lake extremely low, minimal rainfall in past 2
weeks - still experiencing drought like conditions. No significant rainfall in foreseeable future

Very cold with frost at night all week prior to today.

The end of another great season. See you next year.

Lake is very low. 5mm of rain in past week.

Quite windy over past two days (lots of mixing in lake) and a short but intense rainfall event and thunderstorm late last night. Otherwise has been exceptionally dry and hot for this time of year.

Dock has been removed for the season. As a result, I am unable to collect data.

Ice free

Moderate wind from West
Photos taken at BW2 location

Smoke clear day following a week of moderate to severe smokey days.
Flocks if geese and seagulls. Most this season as beach goers down to a handful and motorboat activity reduced.pH using HTH 6-way test strips. Total hardness (TH) 100; Alcalinity Alk 180

Thick smoke haze

Extremely high winds the day before

Very smoky
Less people, less algae. Still have dog use.

Coho salmon
Pied-billes grebe

Coho salmon
Stellar Jay, shallows
I did the air temp then dropped my thermometer in the lake. Darn. The Surface & 100cm down are estimates based on MD1 temps today.

Steam rising off the lake every morning but warm low 20s days

Oh value is unreliable, not sure whether the meter works well???

Absolutly calm. Rain overnight

Heavy smoke in the air from wood fires. Limited visibility.

Heavy rain
atmospheric river conditions setting in. lake depth not much affected yet.

some smoke is in the air from a prescribed area burn

Showers forecast
Lake level 531.3

A few days late for my reporting. Very dry no rain in a very long time; water levels really low

Unusually warm
Water level is much lower than in June

Week leading up was warm with warm nights (except last night).
Very strong SE wind today with gusts up to over 30.
For many weeks, many mornings there is evidence of a beaver - lots of sticks the beaver cut and some decaying leaves from bottom of the lake up on shore.

Unusually warm weather for the past several days. Forest remains very dry. Springs and some residential wells dry.

Sunny and hot all week with cool nights

smoke haze

considerable pollen in water column. Did not collect secchi reading.

Mostly clear

Very hot today and yesterday but very windy. Very warm nights as well.
The clarity picture is taken in over 6 feet water depth.
The mollusc seen is the typical one I report and according to I-naturalist from years ago it is a mimic lymnaea but I can't find that in the list.
Observed our resident loon and twin young loons with it this AM.
Very windy today - Winds from SW with gusts up to 40 kms.

Still no rain
Lake is lowest level we’ve seen in the 16 summers we’ve been here.

cold nights and warm days this past week
Just a note ... with the angle of the sun at it peak decreasing with the progressing seasons the fall secchi disk reading are not truly comparable to the early season readings. lower sun angle at the same time of day will under estimate the secchi disk reading compared to early season readings.

thank you for the season!

Extreme winds and waves. Significant Rain storms

First frost last night
Beaver chewed down a small birch tree on the shore.
Lake level 531.28 (fortisbc)

Unusually warm for October - 20 degrees
Water level unusually low

Lake water level has dropped considerably since last observation.

Total water level drop since June is 12.4”

Lake water level is very low. Lower than normal

SE Wind to with gusts upward to 30 kms/hr. Very warm for this time of year.

very windy and the lake level is down which exposes muddy shoreline. This wave action has resulted in a lot of suspended sediment in the water column today, thus I didn't record a secchi disk reading because the turbidity not the lake productivity is creating small readings. Reading 1.5m
no secchi disc reading today due to high suspended sediment levels from shoreline disturbance due to high winds and dropped water levels exposing normally water covered areas

Calm. Occasional showers. Heavier rain forecast
pH done with litmus paper

It was a low of -4C last night.

Yes, it’s freaking cold out here! Ha ha

Dissolved oxygen 8 mg/L
Chlorine 0 ppm
Conductivity 155 -S/cm
Alkalinity 80 ppm
Hardness 100 ppm
pH 6.8

Secchi disk reached bottom of lake when lowered into the water at same observation point as previous times and disk was still visible at bottom which was 452 cm below surface.

very cold freezing temps most nights this week and 40mm of rain
the lake level is the lowest in 9 years with the prolonged drought which just ended this week.

Lac-à-Jim

Lac-à-JIm

Rainfall warning and lots of rain the last 2 days.
SE winds with gusts 40 kms today. Mimic Lymnaea was the mollusc seen today.
Loons seen today were the twins.

Cold SW wind today. There was fox scat on the dock from this AM.

Snow fall warning and over 6 in of snow fell in the last 24 hours.
Mimic Lymnaea is the mollusc noted. Lake is starting to freeze up - bay across the lake is iced and plants along shoreline are all iced up.

Snow
Freezin every night this past week with 55mm of rain and now snow falling
The boats and canoes are away for the year so no more secchi disk readings this year

Lake St. John