Future Monitoring Needs
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The Need for Monitoring
Improvement of the lake and water quality compared to before the project started was a
reoccurring observation when talking with the public. This is a major concern with the
agricultural community. The agricultural producers want to know how they have improved the
water quality. They also want to know about improvements by sub-watershed so more work can be
targeted in areas where needed. The agricultural producers would like to see data which shows
overall and individual improvements accomplished. The project needs to continue current
monitoring practices and expand so the increased data will give a determination of the watershed
water quality. The monitoring topics discussed further in this section are only a small
portion of the possible monitoring activities.
Through the process of surveying and meeting with the public, many monitoring activities were
identified. In Section 11 the six
topic areas have a section labeled monitoring and evaluation needs. These are from the
comments made by the public during the 1995-1996 data gathering process. The project needs to
develop a detailed, comprehensive monitoring strategy, which will reveal water quality
problems, improvements and the overall effectiveness of the Indian Lake Watershed Project.
This strategy should consider all possible monitoring activities and their cost.
An additional help for this document would have been the publication of the 1994 Ohio EPA 305(b)
report as required by the Clean Water Act. In this report is the data collected from the
monitoring done by Ohio EPA in the summer of 1994 on Indian Lake. This report and data could
be used in a comparison analysis of the data gathered in 1989 in the Ohio EPA Diagnostic
Feasibility Study. By comparing the two sets of Ohio EPA data, the team members could
determine how the watershed project had impacted or improved the condition of the water quality.
Once published, the project should analyze it to determine the next steps for the project.
Current Monitoring Practices Recommended for Continuation
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Monitoring conducted by Ohio EPA on five year rotation
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CLIP- Citizen Lake Improvement Program - Secchi Data (Volunteer)
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Monitoring Conducted by Team Members:
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- Stream Quality Assessments (Macroinvertebrate Sampling)
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- Nitrate and Other Nutrient Runoff Data, etc.
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- Land Use Inspections (NRCS,
FSA)
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- Tillage Transect
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Master Watershed Stewards - Volunteer Stream Quality Assessment.
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Data Collected/Sampling Conducted by Indian Lake State Park Employees
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- Fecal Coliform Sampling of Beach Areas
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- Testing of Public Drinking Water Stations
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For more information on monitoring results or volunteer monitoring opportunities contact:
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Indian Lake Watershed Project
324 County Road 11
Bellefontaine, Ohio 43311
Phone: (937) 593-2946
Fax: (937) 592-3350
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