The Health of and Risks to Chemo Pond
This is the Powerpoint presentation of our guest speaker Matt Scott. If you have any questions, please contact Kathy Trenholm at chemopondla@gmail.com
This is the Powerpoint presentation of our guest speaker Matt Scott. If you have any questions, please contact Kathy Trenholm at chemopondla@gmail.com
Water quality can be measured in many ways. One of the easiest is with a device called a Secchi Disc. This device measures water clarity which is directly proportional to water quality. The Secchi Disc is a round disc divided into 4 quadrants like a pie. Two opposite quadrants are black and the other two […]
Winter doesn’t stop the fun on the pond. Check out these photos of our friends and neighbors enjoying our beautiful Chemo Pond in the winter.
Chemo Pond Lake Association has started a Facebook page called Chemo Ponders. It is a private page so you will need to be invited to join. This page is a great forum for news updates from an=round the pond, interesting wildlife sightings and beautiful photography. If you would like to be a part of this […]
On August 17, we hosted the first ever Invasive Plant Paddle on Chemo Pond! It was a blast. We would like to give a great big thank you to Roberta Hill and the team from Lake Stewards of Maine who led us on our journey. We met at Crossroads Christian Camp and had a brief […]
We had a successful loon count on Saturday July 20th. There were 9 adults and 1 chick found in Chemo Pond this year. A big thanks to our loon counters Mick Evans and Ronda Dalton. We could use 1 more counter next year. If anyone is interested please email CPLA at chemopondla@gmail.com. For more information […]
Environmental Report by Kathy Trenholm Water Quality Many factors affect water quality including water level, invasive plants and animals, anything that happens within the watershed and climate change. Water quality is measured by several different methods including clarity, color, alkalinity, pH, specific conductivity, phosphorus, chlorophyll, temperature and dissolved oxygen. These measurements detect changes […]