According
to the USACE web site,
The
monthly SAV survey is underway. Water
transparency is excellent at the south end of the lake and the macroalga Chara is spreading
rapidly but vascular SAV remains absent. Chara is also expanding near Clewiston and north of
Cochran’s Pass. Transparency is also good along the western
shoreline, where beds of Vallisneria continue
to expand. The northern shoreline will be surveyed for SAV today.
An
apple snail egg survey was conducted in the littoral zone during the last week
of May. Ten clusters were found in the vicinity of Indian Prairie in the
northwest marsh. This is the same location where egg clusters were found
during an identical survey in April. Findings to date indicate that the
continued drought has eliminated apple snails across most of the littoral zone.
Wildfires
continue to burn in the lake’s littoral zone but are not expanding
primarily due to a lack of fuel.