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Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance presents 2024 coastal dune lake water-quality results and trend flags
Summary
CBA summarized monthly monitoring for 18 coastal dune-lake water bodies in 2024: most lakes remain oligotrophic or mesotrophic, but 10-year trends show increasing total phosphorus in Allen, Powell, Stalworth and Western lakes; board requested more public-friendly reporting and considered updating the 2018 environmental assessment.
The Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance (CBA) presented its 2024 coastal dune-lake water-quality monitoring results, reporting monthly citizen-science sampling across 18 water bodies and highlighting a multiyear increase in total phosphorus at four lakes.
Kayla Wingard, CBA monitoring coordinator, outlined the program—s methods: trained volunteers and CBA staff collect monthly field measures (temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity/salinity, pH, turbidity) and submit nutrient samples analyzed through University of Florida—s LakeWatch for total phosphorus, total nitrogen and chlorophyll a. The…
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