The Comfort Lake–Forest Lake Watershed District is looking for committed volunteers to help collect lake samples on the west basin of Forest Lake (Lake 1) in cooperation with the Metropolitan Council’s Citizen-Assisted Monitoring Program. As part of CAMP, volunteers are asked to collect water samples every two weeks from mid-April through mid-October (for a total of 14 sampling events). During each monitoring event the volunteer will visit a pre-designated spot on the lake where they drop anchor, record general observations, collect and prepare water samples and measure the clarity of the water with a Secchi disk -- an 8 inch white metal disk that is lowered into the water until it can no longer be seen. CLFLWD staff will provide the sampling equipment, training, and eventual sample pick-up and delivery to the analytical lab: the volunteer must have their own boat or canoe. People interested in becoming a volunteer lake monitor for Forest Lake, should contact Randy Anhorn, CLFLWD Administrator, at randy@ci.forest-lake.mn.us or by calling 651-209-9753.

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