Lake Monitoring

Lake Monitoring Services from AEC

The condition or health of a water body is determined by many factors. The physical attributes of a pond, ie size, depth and soil type all influence water quality. The other main contributing aspect affecting water quality is the watershed and waters that supply a waterbody. The size of the watershed and practices occurring within the watershed have a great impact on surface run-off. Construction and disturbance of soil can hasten the process of sedimentation, while farming can increase nutrient loading. AEC can help identify problems within your waterbody or watershed.

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Many parameters can be measured to determine the condition of your pond or lake: pH, alkalinity, hardness, conductivity, secchi depth, temperature/dissolved oxygen profile, chlorophyll a, zooplankton, phytoplankton and total phosphorus. A select few analyses can be done to determine the general condition of your waterbody or a more in-depth analysis may be carried out to give a better assessment of the trophic state of your waterbody.

AEC can design a monitoring program that will best fit your needs!

1Basic Water Quality

Basic water quality is monitored during each visit of a management program and gives us immediate feedback about the current conditions in a water body.

2Advanced Water Quality

A more in-depth, long-term monitoring program can help us fine tune our management goals and identify trends in water quality. Parameters such as total phosphorus, chlorophyll and phytoplankton/zooplankton populations would be monitored.

3Long-Term Monitoring Programs

Perhaps you would like to extensively evaluate the condition of your water. We have long-term monitoring that will give you a historic baseline and can track changes over time. You may want to know the TSI value or Trophic State of your water body and see how it changes with time.

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