Water quality gets high marks
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Editor
It was a wonderfully clean summer for Flathead Lake swimming areas in Polson and on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
Thanks to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s Natural Resource Department, Alpine Landscape Design, Glenn Malloy of UBS and the Greater Polson Community Foundation for supporting The Swim Guide to monitor the recreational water quality of our local swimming areas.
Testing was conducted this summer at Riverside Park, Salish Point and Boettcher Park, as well as the tribal swimming beaches at Elmo, Wolf Point and Blue Bay Campground. Of the 60-plus tests conducted by the Flathead Lake Biological Station, our beaches passed with a 100 percent success rate and were “clear for swimming” throughout the summer.
With the addition of Volunteer Park (Lakeside), Somers Bay, Wayfarer’s Park and the Bigfork City Docks, our citizen science program grew to ten total swimming areas by the end of the summer.
With the 2018 swimming season complete, we are already looking forward to 2019 and want to thank our community partners for their support of The Swim Guide.
Mark Johnston
Flathead Lake Open Water Swimmers
Polson
