Borough of Mountain Lakes

Lakes Management Advisory Committee Issues

June 2005

 

 

 

l The Manager has been answering residents' questions about lake bottom cleaning and how the Borough assigns priorities.

 

l The Manager discussed goose control and the conclusion of egg addling.

 

l Allied Biological reported lower levels of oxygen in Birchwood's deeper water, with some stratification. If this keeps up it may justify an aerator at Birchwood that would make an alum treatment possible and might improve clarity on its own.

 

l The Committee reviewed Allied’s monthly lake by lake report.  Of note this month:

1)    To date the coliform counts are good. 

2)    Mountain Lake has a moderately high algal organisms count, but primarily a species which will self-limit (Ankistrodesmus).

 

 

l The Committee discussed the generally excellent health of fish in the lakes.  One apparently diseased fish was determined by State Fish and Wildlife to have a fungal infection in an injury rather than a tumor or parasites.  Fish sampled included:

 

Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) (http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/fish/fishspecs/sunfitxt.html#largemouthbass)

 

Calico Bass (Black Crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus) (http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/fish/fishspecs/sunfitxt.html#blackcrappie)

 

Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) (http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/fish/fishspecs/sunfitxt.html#bluegill).

 

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