Lindie Aragon has been with the City of Westminster for ten years. She is a Senior Water Quality Analyst at the Big Dry Creek Wastewater Facility.

 

The Westminster Water Quality Team conducts monitoring of Standley Lake throughout the year. Here is their report on January’s sampling event.

Standley Lake Update 1.12.26

Samplers: Eric Scott and Peter Wethington

For the first sampling trip in 2026 and a rare January outing, it was a really nice day. It was partly cloudy, 59.6°F, with winds from 2-3 mph out of the South and a relative humidity of 37.8%. The lake parameters remain uniform from top to bottom. There was a little bit of ice on a few of the west side coves. With colder water temperatures, the algae and chlorophyll are very low. In short, the lake is doing great and other than not being iced over, is performing exactly as it usually does at this time of year. We witnessed many more bird species active around the lake than would be expected for January. Probably due to the open water.