Kelsie French, a longtime summer resident of Clary Lake, has recently been certified by Lake Stewards of Maine as a Water Quality Monitor. She has been assisting George Fergusson with regular water sampling and testing on Clary lake since 2018, and has completed extensive training in water quality monitoring procedures such as Secchi disc use (to measure water clarity) and dissolved oxygen measurement. These water monitoring tasks are crucial to maintaining the health of the lake, as they indicate how well the Clary Lake Association is doing in it’s efforts to maintain Clary Lake’s water quality.

Kelsie and George conduct water quality monitoring sessions on Clary Lake every 2 weeks through out the boating season. The picture above was taken on May 18th of this year on our first water quality monitoring session of 2025.