Data period: through 2017

Town County Delorme Map # True Basin Flushing Rate
BOOTHBAY LINCOLN 7 1 1.29 flushes/yr
Maximum Depth Average Depth Surface Area Lake Volume Drainage Area
10 m
(32 ft)
4 m
(14 ft)
38 ha
(94 ac)
1,665,307 m3
(1,350 ac-ft)
3 km2
(1.2 mi2)

Secchi Disk Transparency Graphs

Graph Legend: Secchi symbols = average Secchi Disk Transparency Values; tick marks = maximum and minimum values for each year.

Water Chemistry and Trophic State Parameters

Table Legend:

Color: Color (SPU), Alk: Alkalinity (mg/l CaCO3), SpCon: Specific Conductivity (\(\mu\)S/cm), pH: pH (standard units)

TP = Total Phosphorus (\(\mu\)g/L) – EC: Epilimnion Core, SG: Surface Grab, BG: Bottom Grab, PG: Profile Grab

SDT = Secchi Disk Transparency (m) – Min: minimum value, Avg: average value, Max: maximum value, n: number of months with Secchi readings per year, b: number of times Secchi disk was observed touching the bottom of the lake per year

Chl = Chlorophyll-a (\(\mu\)g/L) – Min: minimum value, Avg: average value, Max: maximum value
Year Color Alk SpCon pH TP-EC TP-SG TP-BG TP-PG SDT-Min SDT-Avg SDT-Max SDT-n SDT-b Chl-Min Chl-Avg Chl-Max
1977 2.2 2.2 2.2 1
1991 5.0 56 6.6 11.0 4.1 4.1 4.1 1 7.8 7.8 7.8
1992 16.0 3.8 3.8 3.8 1 9.1 9.1 9.1
1997 7.2 66 7.0 7.0 24.5 5.6 5.8 6.0 1 3.1 3.1 3.1
2000 14.0 34 6.9 9.0 13.0 4.8 5.2 5.7 4 8.2 8.2 8.2
2001 15.0 53 6.4 10.9 13.4 4.1 5.3 6.5 6 3.5 4.9 6.2
2002 14.9 60 6.4 12.7 16.6 2.6 4.0 5.2 7 3.3 8.0 28.8
2003 14.7 58 6.3 14.3 23.3 3.9 5.1 6.1 6 2.6 16.2 61.3
2004 18 11.5 62 6.4 12.7 32.4 3.6 5.0 6.4 5 4.1 5.8 12.8
2005 12.2 62 6.0 9.7 30.3 5.3 5.6 6.2 3 2.5 3.0 4.3
2006 25 15.5 55 5.9 10.8 25.5 4.5 4.6 4.7 3 3.8 4.2 4.6
2015 8.2 7.8 4.8 5.6 6.7 4 1.8 3.5 5.7
2017 18 9.5 71 7.0 10.0 4.7 4.7 4.7 1 4.5 4.5 4.5

Lake Chemistry and Trophic Summary Data - Overall Summary Values:

Avg Color Avg Alk Avg SpCon pH Avg TP-EC Avg TP-SG Avg TP-BG Avg TP-PG SDT-Min SDT-Avg SDT-Max SDT-n Chl-Min Chl-Avg Chl-Max
20 12 58 6.4 11 21 2.2 4.7 6.7 3.3 1.8 6.5 61

Most recent late summer temperature and dissolved oxygen profiles

Units: Temperature (TEMP) = °C; Dissolved Oxygen (DO) = mg/L
2005-08-04
2005-08-18
2006-08-10
2006-08-18
2006-09-28
2015-08-27
2015-09-17
2017-08-17
Depth (m) TEMP DO TEMP DO TEMP DO TEMP DO TEMP DO TEMP DO TEMP DO TEMP DO
0 26.0 6.8 24.5 7.0 24.9 7.2 24 7.9 18 8.0 24 6.3 23 6.5 23.6 8.1
1 25.4 6.9 24.4 7.0 24.7 7.2 24 7.8 18 8.0 24 6.3 23 6.7 23.5 8.1
2 25.1 6.9 24.3 7.0 24.7 7.2 23 7.8 18 8.0 24 6.3 22 6.5 23.5 8.1
3 23.9 6.7 24.2 7.0 24.4 6.9 22 7.3 18 8.0 24 6.2 22 6.5 23.4 8.0
4 16.6 6.2 18.7 5.2 21.2 3.8 22 6.6 18 7.9 23 5.5 22 6.3 20.3 4.0
5 13.4 5.0 14.1 4.0 15.1 2.0 17 2.0 18 7.3 18 3.2 21 5.5 15.7 1.2
6 11.4 5.0 11.8 3.9 13.0 1.9 14 1.2 17 4.3 13 3.0 15 2.4 11.3 0.6
7 10.3 3.9 10.3 2.7 11.6 1.0 12 0.9 13 0.1 9.4 0.5
8 9.4 2.9 9.4 2.5 10.4 0.3 11 0.1 8.2 0.5
9 9.6 0.2 7.6 0.4
10 9.1 0.2

Recent temperature and dissolved oxygen profile plots

Temperature (°C), Dissolved Oxygen (mg/L)