STATE OF THE LAKE ENVIRONMENT REPORTS - 2001
The Farren Lake Property Owners Association, through the Rideau Valley
Conservation Authority and the Trillium Foundation, sponsors the Watershed Watch
Program. This is an environmental monitoring and awareness program. The
objectives are to collect reliable environmental data to document current water
quality conditions and to use the data as an essential educational tool to
encourage shoreline residents to become personal stewards of their lake and to
adopt sound practices aimed at preserving and protecting water quality.
Eight lakes were tested in the summer of 2001 and the detailed reports are
now available through the RVCA website (details below). Here is a summary of the
scoring results for the eight lakes. Remember that the score is an average of
seven items with the maximum (best) score being four.
Farren Lake 3.43
Rainbow Lake 3.14 (Feeds into Little Silver Lake)
Crosby Lake 2.86
Little Crosby 2.86
Davern Lake 2.83
O'Brien Lake 2.71 (Feeds into Farren Lake)
Little Silver Lake 1.43
Pike Lake 1.42
All of the lake reports are posted on the RVCA website:
www.rideauvalley.on.ca
under Watershed Programs. Scroll down to Resource Management and click on Water
Quality Monitoring - Watershed Watch Program and the list of pdf files for the
eight lakes is there.
(Click
here to obtain the report for Farren Lake)
For the two page, short summary, Farren Lake Report, read pgs 6 - 8. For you
technophiles, the long, detailed report is pgs 9 - 17, under the heading
"Looking a Little Deeper".
