How did you get involved with taking Secchi disk measurements and water quality monitoring on Grand Lake?
I started doing water quality sampling when I first moved to Grand Lake in June of 1996. I had been living in Colorado Springs where I developed a middle school curriculum for the Colorado Springs Water Department. Through my research I learned all about trans-mountain diversion, the history of water in Colorado, and about water-waste water treatment issues. Before I moved to Colorado Springs, I had lived in the Midwest so I was fascinated by the way water was managed in the West. I met Stoddard White at a water quality meeting in Granby and began helping him do water sampling on Grand Lake. Stoddard was a volunteer who was trained by the Water Quality Control Division. They supplied him with the necessary equipment and testing of samples. While we took Secchi measurements, we did much other sampling as well using a probe to measure temperature and dissolved oxygen down to 65′ below the surface. We would go out on the lake every Friday morning at 8 am. I still try to get out to do the
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