New Hampshire, Mirror Lake LTER water chemistry, 1967-2010

The New York State Lake Classification and Inventory (LCI) monitoring program, which is a component of the Statewide Waters Monitoring Program of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Water (NYSDEC). Data was originally provided in an excel sheet LCI Master 1982-2010 updated and this is available in dropbox. The LAGOS-appropriate (shortened, some processing) file is LCI Master 1982-2010_shortened.xls. The LCI database is a complement to the CSLAP database. LCI began in the early 1980s an ambient lake monitoring program to evaluate baseline water quality conditions in lakes throughout the state, utilizing a rotating monitoring cycle loosely patterned after the stream monitoring programs conducted by the Department. However, due to staff shortages, this ambient lake monitoring program (the LCI) was suspended in 1990. This left the NY Citizens Statewide Lake Assessment Program (CSLAP), a volunteer lake monitoring program overseen by NYSDEC, as the only statewide ambient lake monitoring program conducted by the NYSDEC. However, the LCI program was re-initiated in the mid-1990s, using a rotating-basin approach to sampling. Note that some of the lakes appear in both data sets. The primary goals of the LCI Monitoring Program component of the New York Statewide Waters Monitoring Program include: 1) water quality screening of as many waters as possible to document “good” waters that support designated uses, and identify waters with possible/potential impairment to uses; 2) Intensive sampling of selected waters to evaluate impairments, causes and sources and to characterize general water quality conditions