Control Methods Test –miniDot Buoys Installed

By Water Quality Department

The Water Quality tech team has placed white mooring buoys with blue stripes at purposefully GPS identified locations around the lagoons. You most likely have seen them in and around your dock and waterways. These white buoys contain two probes that log continuous data at various depths on water quality parameters for the Control Methods Test (CMT) Project. These probes are called miniDots and are the property of TKPOA for the purpose of tracking and collecting data of continuous temperature and dissolved oxygen of the Key’s waterways.

This equipment is expensive at a cost of about $3,000 per buoy. With 25 buoys placed around the Key’s, our homeowner water quality dues have paid over $75,000 for this installation. We ask you to please not touch or move these buoys! We have worked hard to position them in places that boats can easily pass.

If they are impeding your boating or are in the way of your dock, please call the Water Quality Department at 530-542-6444 x275 or email waterquality@ tahoekeyspoa.org and we will work with you to find a more suitable location. We ask you please not reposition these buoys on your own. We will move them for you and redocument our GPS data locations accordingly. We thank you for your cooperation.