Lake Simcoe Monitoring

The Lake Simcoe lake monitoring program provides measurements of chemical and physical water quality limits such as total phosphorus, nitrogen, chlorophyll a, pH, alkalinity, conductivity, dissolved organic and inorganic carbon, silica, other ions, water transparency, temperature and dissolved oxygen. Samples are collected biweekly during the spring, summer and fall.

*[pH]: potential of hydrogen

Ministry contact: Environment, Conservation and Parks

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Ontario
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As required

Lake Simcoe Monitoring

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