Winter conditions play a role in what the lake could look like next season According to an email I received from Indiana Climate INformer, we are now experiencing our second winter in a row with active La Niña conditions in the equatorial Pacific. The main wintertime...
Photo: Full rake of Starry Stonewort pulled from Lake Maxinkuckee Last year I wrote an article about the role that aquatic plants play in a healthy lake. Benefits of Aquatic Plants Starry StonewortNitellopsis obtusa Provide Habitat and Food for Fish and Wildlife...
I hope you read the recent blog article Lake Maxinkuckee’s Annual Check-Up. I wrote about Indiana University’s Clean Lakes Program and revealed Lake Maxinkuckee’s Carlson’s TSI score – putting us in between Oligotrophic and Mesotrophic. I also posed the question: Is...
photo courtesy of Jim Haist The Indiana Clean Lakes Program was created in 1989 and is administered through a grant to Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) in Bloomington. The goal is to collect data to identify water quality...
According to The Environmental Protection Agency, sediment – loose sand, silt, clay and other soil particles – is the most common pollutant in our waterways. Accelerated erosion from human use of land accounts for 70% of that sediment, and the most concentrated...
Lake Maxinkuckee has had a long history of beautiful, crystal clear water. Perhaps that long history has made us take the water quality for granted. Last week I was contacted by a concerned citizen asking about dead fish and “yucky green water” along the north...
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