Author: SLA
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ICE OUT officially declared
Our SLA president declared ice out on April 23, 2019. “Ice Out” is defined as when you can navigate unimpeded from one end of the water body to the other. There may still be ice in coves or along the shoreline in some areas, but when a person can traverse the entire water body without…
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Letter from SLA President
Maxine Pare 6:52 AM (44 minutes ago) Good Morning, For those of you suffering the heat of the south and yearning for the cooler weather, it is a brisk 4 degrees above zero here in Newport this morning, but there is no wind, so it is tolerable out there. Snow on the way for Thursday,…
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Reasoning for Sept. 10th draw down in 2018
We have had an unusually poor water quality this summer. When our phosphorus readings are this poor it is necessary to draw down to dump this poor quality water out of the lake as soon as we can. The late September draw downs are a recent phenomena due to improved water quality allowing us to…