I love the information you WW and BC are giving!
What do you think of this salinity level: Early on:right after the ice melt and heavy rain on 3/10: 512 ppm, main sample, 428 ppm near my drain. And then on 3/18 it was 463.0 ppm near the outflow, PH was 9.3, Phosphates 150. ppb, Nitrates 1,452.0 ppb. The others were within the normal range but kind of high, the water is hard 282.0 ppm. We have no vegeation (other than the CLP). As you know I am trying to get one drain diverted from out of my lake, and the heavily salted road coming in had filter paper on it,and the area is still wet, so we didn't get the normal run-off from that road. We collected it ourselves, then the Lake Co. came out and did a total test. I keep running across info here and there that talks about natural bacteria and salt causing problems with it.
