Results of the 1998 Secchi Dip-In

Below are listed the Secchi disk transparencies obtained in the 1998 Secchi Dip-In.


Country State Program Participants SD (m) SD (Ft)
Australia N.S.W. Department of Environmental Sciences 1 0.76 2.5
Canada BC Ministry of the Environment, Lands & Parks 8 5.64 18.5
BC Turtle Island Earth Stewards 1 0.78 2.6
NB Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program 3 4.45 14.6
ON Ontario Cottage Owners Association (?) 389 4.33 14.2
QC APPEL Water Quality Testing Program 1 4.57 15.0
Friends of the Gatineau River 2 2.42 8.0
USA AL Baywatch 16 0.74 2.4
CaWaCo Res. Conserv. & Develop. Council 2 0.97 3.2
Lake Watch of Lake Martin 3 2.41 7.9
Wolf Bay Watershed Watch 2 0.14 0.5
CA Chris Holdren's Friends 1 5.06 16.6
GLOBE Program Instructor 1 3.61 11.8
Muir Beach Environmental 1 - -
Water Environment Studies Program 4 0.36 1.2
CO Chris Holdren's Friends 2 1.71 5.6
Grand Lake Water Quality Monitoring Program 1 3.50 11.5
CT Adopt-A-Harbor 5 1.24 4.1
Bashan Lake Assoc. 1 8.23 27.0
Highland Lake Watershed Association 1 4.30 14.1
Northeast Aquatic Research 2 3.07 10.1
FL Citizens Vol. WQM Netwk. for the Indian River Lagoon 26 0.77 2.5
Environmental Mgmt. County of Volusia 17 0.80 2.6
Florida LAKEWATCH 104 1.58 5.2
Hillsborough Lake Management Program 1 1.07 3.5
Lake Jesup Water Quality Monitoring Project 1 0.28 0.9
Orange County Adopt-A-Lake 7 1.54 5.0
Three Creek Watch/Lemon Bay 15 1.23 4.0
Water Resources Management 3 0.60 2.0
Wildpine Laboratory 6 0.88 2.9
GA Georgia Lake Management Society 2 0.89 2.9
Lake Hartwell Association 1 2.70 8.9
Lake Lanier Citizen's Monitoring Program 1 2.33 7.6
HI Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program 2 1.76 5.8
IA Des Moines River Water Quality Network 2 1.30 4.3
Flint Creek Water Quality 1 0.24 0.8
Iowa DNR 3 0.22 0.7
Water Quality Monitoring 1 0.49 1.6
West Lyon FFA 1 0.63 2.1
IL Illinois Vol Lake Monitoring Program 60 0.97 3.2
NE Illinois Planning Commission 1 3.34 10.9
The Illinois' Rivers Project 1 1.20 3.9
IN Indiana Vol Lake Monitoring Prog 62 1.95 6.4
Water Watchers of Indiana 1 1.68 5.5
KS Clean Lakes Coordinator 14 1.04 3.4
Oklahoma Water Watch 3 0.57 1.9
KY Citizens Lake Assessment and Monitoring (CLAM) 1 2.35 7.7
Doe Run Lake Water Watch 1 0.61 2.0
MA Buzzards Bay Citizen's Water Quality Monitoring Prog. 19 1.43 4.7
Linganore Trailblazers Environmental Committee 1 - -
Massachusetts Water Watch Partnership 50 1.95 6.4
Northeast Aquatic Research 1 1.62 5.3
Orleans Marine Water Quality Task Force 5 1.34 4.4
Salem Sound 2000 Inc 1 3.00 9.8
MD Chesapeake Bay Citizen Monitoring Prog - VA 9 0.77 2.5
Linganore Trailblazers Environmental Committee 1 0.91 3.0
Magothy River Monitoring 1 0.66 2.2
Maryland Coastal Bays Vol. Water Qual. Monitoring Prog. 15 0.53 1.8
Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program 107 4.87 16.0
NH Lakes Lay Monitoring Prog 1 2.50 8.2
Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program 1 6.50 21.3
MI Arnold Lake Prop Owners Assoc 1 5.79 19.0
Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program 131 3.46 11.4
Lake Watch/Baseline 7 4.10 13.4
Missaukee Soil and Water Conservation District 1 2.53 8.3
Tip of the Mitt Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program 23 3.85 12.6
Wisconsin Adopt-A-Lake 4 4.43 14.5
MN Citizen Lake Monitoring Program 483 2.62 8.6
Citizen-Assisted Monitoring Program (CAMP) 11 1.06 3.5
Forest Lake Watershed Management Org 2 2.79 9.2
Maine Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program 1 2.13 7.0
Program Unknown 2 1.95 6.4
Upper South Long Lake Improvement Association 1 2.42 7.9
MO Lakes of Missouri Volunteer Program 13 1.16 3.8
MT Flathead Basin Volunteer Monitoring 22 6.47 21.2
Volunteer Lake Monitoring 13 4.86 16.0
NC Albemarle-Pamlico Citizens Water Qual. Monitoring Prog. 13 0.72 2.4
Estuary-Net Water Qality Monitoring Program 5 1.26 4.1
Town of Butner 1 1.37 4.5
ND Surface Water Program 1 3.45 11.3
NE Chris Holdren's Friends 4 0.08 0.3
NH Great Bay Watch 12 0.50 1.6
Lake Sunapee Water Monitoring 8 3.79 12.4
NH Lakes Lay Monitoring Prog 29 4.74 15.5
NH Volunteer Lake Assessment Prog 18 3.99 13.1
Program Unknown 1 5.65 18.5
NJ Fairview Lake 1 2.56 8.4
Lake Owassa Community Association 1 1.13 3.7
NV Chris Holdren's Friends 1 6.50 21.3
NY Adopt-A-Harbor 3 1.00 3.3
Lake George Lay Monitoring Program 17 6.83 22.4
Northeast Aquatic Research 1 3.25 10.7
NY Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Prog. (CSLAP) 53 3.29 10.8
NYC Dept Envir Protection 15 2.99 9.8
Program Unknown 1 3.50 11.5
Water Quality Monitoring 6 2.56 8.4
OH Citizens Lake Assessment and Monitoring (CLAM) 42 0.53 1.7
Crosley Lake Monitoring Project 1 0.91 3.0
Hamilton County Park District 4 0.80 2.6
NEFCO Volunteer Lake Monitoring Program 8 1.49 4.9
Trumbull Area Multi-Purpose Environ Ed Lab 1 2.74 9.0
OK Creek Turnpike Wetlands 1 0.60 2.0
Oklahoma Water Watch 53 0.66 2.2
OR Lake Oswego Corporation 1 1.38 4.5
Oregon Citizen Lake Watch 14 2.72 8.9
PA Lake Sheridan Tarn Watch 1 3.25 10.7
NY Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Prog. (CSLAP) 1 1.00 3.3
Shawnee State Park 1 - -
State Lakes and 319 Coordinator 21 1.52 5.0
RI Adopt-A-River Program 1 2.00 6.6
URI Watershed Watch 33 1.66 5.4
SC FOLKS Water Clarity 16 3.71 12.2
Lake Hartwell Association 7 2.60 8.5
Lake Murray Lakewatch 1 2.30 7.5
SD Citizen Lake Monitoring 4 0.68 2.2
TN Garner Lake Homeowners Ass 1 1.00 3.3
TX Brazos Basin Citizens Monitoring 16 0.86 2.8
Galveston Bay Foundation 9 0.34 1.1
Oklahoma Water Watch 1 1.92 6.3
Texas Watch Volunteer Environmental Monitoring 18 0.47 1.6
VA Chesapeake Bay Citizen Monitoring Prog - VA 21 0.71 2.3
Chesapeake Bay Foundation 1 1.20 3.9
Chesapeake Bay Youth Conservation Corps 4 0.26 0.9
Chris Holdren's Friends 1 1.73 5.7
Smith Mountain Lake Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring 1 2.43 8.0
VT Vermont Lay Monitoring Program 37 4.45 14.6
WA King County Lake Stewardship Program 36 3.29 10.8
Snohomish County Lake Management Prog 14 1.97 6.5
Washington's Citizen Lake Monitoring Project 34 3.64 11.9
WI Dane County Water Education Resource Center 1 1.83 6.0
Wisconsin Adopt-A-Lake 19 2.27 7.4
Wisconsin Self-Help Lake Monitoring Program 298 3.02 9.9
WV Chris Holdren's Friends 1 0.56 1.8

For more information on the Great American Secchi Dip-In, contact Bob Carlson at: RCarlson@kent.edu or write

Great American Secchi Dip-In
Department of Biological Sciences
Kent State University
Kent OH 44242

Updated: June 19, 2006