Lake Updates
Water quality testing:
The Director of Lake Maintenance (e-mail any questions) is responsible for monitoring the water quality on our lake. During the swimming season, weekly testing is performed.
More info about our testing and how to interpret these numbers.
Fecal coliform test results for 2006 (all units are cfu/100ml).
|
Date |
Beach |
30-day Geometric Mean at Beach |
Picnic Grounds |
30-day Geometric Mean at Picnic Grounds |
| 5/22/06 | 4 | not tested |
Detection limit is 2 cfu/100ml
Fecal coliform test results for 2005 (all units are cfu/100ml).
|
Date |
Beach |
30-day Geometric Mean at Beach |
Picnic Grounds |
30-day Geometric Mean at Picnic Grounds |
| 8/12/05 | 210 | 284 | 13 | 76 |
| 7/26/05 | 390 | 476 | 192 | 129 |
| 7/12/05 | 280 | 250 | 176 | 68 |
|
6/30/05 |
840 |
154 |
52 |
87 |
|
6/23/05 |
560 |
54 |
160 |
127 |
|
6/16/05 |
30 |
|
15 |
|
|
6/6/05 |
40 |
|
460 |
|
|
5/23/05 |
13 |
|
236 |
|
7/12/2005 Swimming Alert: Fecal coliform level at the beach exceeds EPA recommended levels for swimming. This is probably due to the water fowl (or the foul water ;-) and all of the recent storm water runoff (over 16 inches of rain in July). Please exercise caution if/when swimming. Read more about FC here. Also, please remember that it takes 7 days to get the test results back from the lab after the samples are taken.
6/30/2005: Once the geese started roosting at the beach, fecal coliform levels went up at beach and down at picnic grounds. Let's hope they start flying again soon.
Fecal coliform test results for 2004 (all units are cfu/100ml).
Click on the dates to view the full reports (pdf files)
|
Date |
Beach |
30-day Geometric Mean at Beach |
Picnic Grounds |
30-day Geometric Mean at Picnic Grounds |
|
18 |
15 |
290 |
24 |
|
|
13 |
17 |
2* |
45 |
|
| 7/16/04 | 10 | 20 | 21 | 210 |
|
40 |
|
2100 |
|
|
|
34 |
|
128 |
|
|
|
104 |
|
162 |
|
*Detection limit is 2 cfu/100ml
The geese were "relocated" in 2004.
Lake Updates:
The Berkeley Lake Homeowners Association contracts the maintenance and upkeep of the lake with:
Lake management Services
Here are the "Lake Updates" that are provided periodically by Professional Ponds:
