What is Project Clear

Project CLEAR (Candlewood Lake Environmental Awareness and Responsibility) got its start in 2001 and has grown into an educational program that is now offered annually to approximately 125 high school students from Bethel, Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield and New Milford and Sherman.

Prior to doing their field studies in late June, students spend four days throughout the school year in a classroom setting at Western Connecticut State University learning about different scientific topics pertaining to Candlewood Lake in order to help prepare them for their June field work. Project CLEAR students have traditionally also volunteered their time on Candlewood Lake Cleanup Day.
After the end of the school year in June, students spend four days doing field investigations on and around Candlewood Lake, followed by one day of preparation for their presentations to the public that evening. For the field study portion of the program students are split into the following groups: lake water quality (phytoplankton, nutrients, dissolved oxygen), stream water quality, aquatic invasive plants, residential lake shoreline study, fisheries, forestry, terrestrial invasives and dragonfly studies as well as a documentary group.
At the conclusion of the program's field days the students spend the last day of Project CLEAR preparing to host a presentation session which is open to the public. At the evening's events the public viewed a first cut of the video on this page, which was filmed and edited by the Project CLEAR documentary group. They were then invited to an open presentation session where they could walk around to the different groups and were able to speak with the students about their studies on Candlewood Lake.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Candlewood Lake Fish Data for 2009



Fish data
During the one week summer research project, the fisheries group collected numerous fish using a 90 feet saine net borough from the Department of Environmental Protection. Here are some of the details of the data collected during that summer.
Fish abundance:
Species Abundance
Alewife 1
Banded Killie Fish 103
Blue Gill 184
Bullhead 1
Green Sunfish 2
Pumpkin Seed 59
Red Breasted 39
Rock Bass 6
Small Mouth Bass 14
White Sucker 2
Yellow Perch 51
Bridle Shiner 1
Most abundant were the Blue gills and the banded killie fish. Blue gills, green sunfish, pumkin seeds and red breasted fish belong to the sunfish family, normaly very abundant in most lakes.
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