Clean Water Projects Webinar Series #2:
How To Assess Your Lake’s Water Quality Data with Mark Mitchell
On January 23rd, 2025, the Federation of Vermont Lakes and Ponds and the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, Watershed Management Division, Lakes and Ponds Program held a special event to discuss how to assess your lake’s water quality data.
Mark Mitchell, Vermont DEC’s Lay Monitoring Program Lead, Lake Assessment Coordinator, and Limnologist takes us on a tour of the Lay Monitoring Program (LMP) website to show how lake associations can access and use the new LMP data and reports to better understand the available information/condition at a specific lake and compare to other lakes. Examples were given on how the data can be used to support clean water projects (e.g. Lake Watershed Action Plans) and eventually used to monitor the installation of these projects. Discussion included how to best communicate the available data (e.g. share the lake-specific and comparison reports on lake association websites).
Mark’s presentation is available here.
You can watch the presentation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgKJPe2actA
