Hi All,

No surprise here.  The lake looks real bad .. it has been green for most of the week and blooms all around it.  See the official notice below.  Signs stay up for another week at least.

The PLA

Hi All,

The cyanobacteria warning remains at your lake, please see below for details.

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Waterbody	Province Lake, Effingham/Wakefield
Status	WARNINGremains
Issued	8/2/2024 – reissued 8/12
Resampled (most recent sampling date)	8/15/2024
Cyanobacteria Taxa	Dolichospermum
Cyanobacteria Density (cells/mL)	1,971,133
Notes	The cyanobacteria density continues to exceed the state limit of 70,000 cell/mL, so the warning will remain active. Significant bloom conditions were reported through the week as well.

Please keep signs posted at public access points. NHDES will arrange for sampling again next week. Warning details can also be found on the Healthy Swimming Mapper. If you click on the waterbody, you can see our most recent sampling date. When warnings are lifted, the red symbol for the waterbody will no longer be on the map, and the waterbody will not be listed under “Current Cyanobacteria Warnings”.

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Best,

The CyanoHAB Team
Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Bloom Program
Watershed Management Bureau, Water Division
New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
29 Hazen Drive, P.O. Box 95, Concord, NH 03302-0095
603-848-8094   hab@des.nh.gov