Greetings, Lake Vilbig Residents
September 30, 2024
This letter is to talk about our September 2024 management efforts. I visited once in September on the 25th. Overall, things look relatively decent. At least it has cooled down some, not much, but some. We received a little rain early in the morning before I arrived. I had no issues getting through the park. We have had so little rain recently that a little bit did not soak into the soil. It just ran off. Despite the recent rain, I barely left any tire tracks driving through the park area. We received a few inches up north, but the lake level was approximately 2 feet low. It takes a little time, a day or two, for the runoff to stop flowing and for benefits to be seen, but I doubt we will see much benefit from this round of precipitation.
On the 25th. Water temperatures are cooling, but not by much. I measured water temperatures of 80. This is a fairly significant decrease since last month, about 8 degrees. We are on a downward slope this year. It is interesting; yes, we had our stretch of weather this summer with temperatures over 100 F., but we never reached 110 plus. This was evident in the observed water temperatures during the summer. I never saw water temperatures over 90 this summer. The pH was still high at 8.5, and alkalinity was at 130. Water clarity was also pretty low; I got 12-18 inches readings. There was a bit of turbidity due to the rain that morning, which decreased water clarity, but it should settle out in a day or two. There was a lot of plankton growth. Still, there are a lot of geese and some ducks around, but not much else.
