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Commissioner Tom Bowman summarizes lake-level records, E. coli testing and rising erosion permits
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Commissioner Tom Bowman presented long-term lake-level monitoring, two decades of E. coli sampling with targeted DNA testing on problem lakes, and a threefold rise in soil erosion permits that he said warrants a fee-and-program review.
Commissioner Tom Bowman told the Wexford County Board of Commissioners that he has compiled 50 years of lake-level data and is using it to set statistically based high, average and low benchmarks for management decisions.
Bowman said the set of levels includes a winter, summer and “high spring” level established in a 1967 court order by Judge Peterson that Bowman told the board still applies to late release decisions. “That quarter window also provides for rain events that raise it above the high level and evaporation and heat … in the summer that will take it down below the summer level,” Bowman said. “I’ve compiled over 50 years of data into some spreadsheet so that at the end of each month, we now know statistically the average, the high, and the minimum values.”
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