Water Quality, Maine, Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program, Chiputneticook Lake International Conservancy, St. Croix International Waterway Commission 

Left Pocket
1.
Printed email – 3 Pages
From: ChipLakeNEWS@aol.com
To: ChipLakeINFO@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:13 AM
Subject: Special ChipLakeNEWS – Water Quality Informational Notes
*Summarized*
Simple Food Web in a CLIC Lake
- Piscivorous fish
- Planktivous fish
- Zooplankton
- Algae
- Nutrients
“We hope to be able to address issues regarding non-point pollution that can have an impact upon water quality and ultimately the fishery, in the weeks to come in this ChipNews letter. We will try to keep it simple. Our primary goal this year will be to address erosion of ‘soil’ into our streams and eventually the lakes...”
“In a following newsletter, we will first talk about one of the biggest contributions of eroded soil and phosphorous to most lakes. We will discuss what we can do as ‘Friends of CLIC Lakes’ (members of CLIC as well as non-members) to reduce this non-point discharge of soils into our streams and ultimately the lake.”
“Till next time, Roland Tilton – Water Quality Committee”

2.
Printed email – 6 pages
From: ChipLakeNEWs@aol.com
To: ChipLakeINFO@aol.com
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 12:29 PM
Subject: ChipLakeNEWS for March 9th (4) Long
*Summarized*
“Item First:
Here is a list of (almost) all the pages on the ChipLakeNEWS.org website…there’s a lot of information available for those interested. Once you get to the cIN.org home page, the Table of Contents Page gives DIRECT ACCESS to every other page on the site and is the easiest base from which to surf the entire site.
Item Second: Camp and Public Road Erosion
Item Third: Certified Road Contractors
Item Fourth: Make your reservations Now for the April… (Illegible?)

3.
Department of Environmental Protection – Volunteer Lake Monitoring Data Form – From DEP-142b (Rev 04/05)
Lake: Spednic – Station: Joes Is. – Town: Forest City – County: Washington
Surveyors 1 & 2 (Enter Last name, First name) – Blair, Dennis – Grant, Nicole
*More information exist on the form related to Date, Weather, Wind, SECCHI, etc.

4.
*A duplicate of the previous document. However, only two readings were taken, and at different times.

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A blank example of the two previous documents. However, this document contains an attached carbon copy.

7.
A ‘filled out’ example copy of the above three documents. This example was completed by Scott Williams, the Maine Lake Monitoring Program’s Executive Director.
8.
A March 2006 email from the Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program’s Executive Director Scott Williams
The email refers to the ongoing volunteer water quality work and provides four maps that highlight the testing areas in each lake.

9.
Water Quality Summary for East Grand Lake – 3 Pages
- SECCHI Disk Transparency Graphs
- Data represented from 1974 – 2003
- Summary of Chemical and Trophic State Parameters
- Dissolved Oxygen Profiles

10.
Water Quality Summary for Spednic Lake – 8 Pages
- SECCHI Disk Transparency Graphs
- Summary of Chemical and Trophic State Parameters
- Six different sample stations are analyzed

11.
Empty envelope addressed to Lee Sochasky
Return address: Maine VLMP, 24 Maple Hill Road, Auburn, Maine 04210

12.
What appears to be a Welcome Package of ten associated documents from the Maine volunteer Lake Monitoring Program. These include maps, instructions, directions, explanations and references.



Right Pocket

1.
Envelope addressed to Dennis Blair (P.O. Box 64, Vanceboro, ME, 04491) 13 MAR 2007
“To: Friends of the Chiputneticook Lakes
You’re invited to be part of a volunteer water testing program for one of the Chiputneticook Lakes…
Your name was given to me as someone who currently takes readings on one of the lakes or who might want to volunteer to learn the skills to do Secchi readings…
Hoping to hear from you soon,
Heather Walton.”

2.
Seven page document concerning the planting and care of vegetables
*Hand written note on yellow sticky note: “You may wish to buy seedlings from…(Shores Nurseries?) Try Sco H Nursery…(illegible) 458-9208 or Mayfield Grhs St. Stephen 466-5926
“Steps to follow from November 1997 until time of planting in early Spring 1998…”
- Seeding
- Varieties
- Spacing of Pots
- Transplant in Beds
- Training
- Pollination
- Cluster Pruning
- Harvesting
- Fertilizers

3.
Maine Center For Invasive Aquatic Plants: Quick Key to Ruling Out Maine’s Eleven Most Unwanted Invasive Aquatic Plants (because sometimes what it isn’t is more important than knowing what it is!)
- Plant type categories for ruling out invaders
- Floating-Leaf Plants
- Submerged plants with whorls of small lance-shaped leaves (Approx 1” or less)
- Submerged plants with pairs or clusters of small narrow leaves
- Submerged plants with long, flat, alternately-arranged leaves
- Submerged plants with finely-divided leaves

4.
The Water Column: A Publication of Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program – Summer 2004
- 2004: Maine Lakes Conferences & VLMP Annual Meeting June 19 – 8am-3pm, University of Southern Maine, Gorham
- Lake Sebasticook Story
- Life Long Volunteers
- 2004 IPP Workshops

5.
2003 Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program Annual Report
Topics Include:
- Programs purpose, goals, structure, operation
- How are the VLMP data used?
- Quality assurance / control
- Water quality
- SECCHI Disk Transparency data
- Baseline Lake data
- The 2003 Monitoring season in review
- Maine Center for Invasive Aquatic Plants
- What’s New for 2004?
- Appendix A: Distribution of Water Quality Data for Maine Lakes
- Appendix B: Data Listing for Individual Lakes in Maine
- Appendix C: Range of Average Secchi Disk Transparency for VLMP Lakes
- Appendix D: Volunteer Lake Monitors
- Appendix E: Sample Individual Lake Report and Explanation of Report Format
- Appendix F: Waterbodies Screened for Invasive Aquatic Plants
- Appendix G: Glossary