Submitted by Lake Ambassadors
- Average water temperature: 13.9 °C
- Average Water Depth: 4.24 m
- Average Turbidity: 0.97 NTU
- Average D.O.: 10.73 mg/L
- Average pH: 8.5
After a grey, drizzly long weekend, it was a grey, drizzly Tuesday morning on the lake. We even had a few pebbles of hail pepper the water around our boat! But the water is warming up nicely anyway – we had readings close to 15 °C at our North site near Taynton Bay!
Turbidity (cloudiness) usually ranges from 0 to 10 NTU but can get into the hundreds in times of high flow, flooding etc.
Most fish need a D.O. (degree of oxygenation) of between 4 and 15 mg/L to survive.
We’re hoping that we’ll soon be able to take our first citizen scientists of the year out on the lake! If you’re interested in joining us in the boat on a Tuesday morning (or keen to get involved with the Ambassadors in any way), please contact Alyssa at (250) 341-6898 or [email protected].
The Lake Windermere Ambassadors would like to thank the Columbia Basin Trust, Columbia Valley Community Foundation, Columbia Valley Local Conservation Fund, Real Estate Foundation, BC Gaming Grants, District of Invermere, Regional District of East Kootenay and community donors for supporting our 2021 programming.
