Trickey Pond Environmental Protection Association

05/29/2026

Important and timely advice from LEA.

04/14/2026

Our 2025 water monitoring summary is now available! LEA visits 22 lakes biweekly from May through September, and an additional 19 sites in late August.

We focus much of our work on water clarity, chlorophyll-a concentrations, and total phosphorus. When considered together, these three indicators help us describe water quality conditions in a pond or lake. We also collect temperature and oxygen profiles, take samples for nutrient and algae analysis, estimate Gloeotrichia density (a type of cyanobacteria), and record weather conditions. Water samples are analyzed at our Maine Lake Science Center in Bridgton.

For most lakes, clarity, total phosphorus, and chlorophyll measurements from 2025 were within the same water quality classification range as the long-term averages. Our data is shared with Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection and is made available to the public on our website at www.mainelakes.org/testing-reports

Thank you to our volunteer monitors, lakefront landowners, and summer interns for making this work possible, and to lake associations and members for financial support. We couldn't do it without all of you! If you have questions, please reach out; we are happy to help interpret the data.

02/25/2026

01/08/2026

Stop in for some good tunes and fun. Great way to help support LEA, our TPEPA partner.

12/16/2025

Maine Audubon has posted the results of the 42nd annual loon count. Loon counters on Trickey Pond participated again this summer - and five of those adult loons counted were "ours" and two of the chicks were "ours". Side note, a Trickey Pond observer saw the two young loons finally take off today for the ocean. The lake has been trying to freeze over...we are happy they took off while there is still some open water.

https://maineaudubon.org/news/looking-up-maine-audubons-42nd-annual-loon-count-results-show-positive-signs/?fbclid=IwY2xjawOucSVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFkT3h6dXB5aUIyaHR5MzJDc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvpdSGpSCKQjMvqofqeOFvTbl1qF9YnJYUolbbBaDth6ZxJHhfonRgqd6n9H_aem_M0Md6MvWrViHJ0yF-A1YCg

Bruce and Gail Small could not stop exclaiming as they navigated their boat in and around the bays, nooks, crannies, and marinas at a busy end of Sebago Lake. It was their fourth year participating in Maine Audubon’s Annual Loon Count. Bruce navigated the boat while Gail recorded each sighting car...

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from Trickey Pond. The TPEPA is thankful for this beautiful pond and all of our TPEPA donors. Our annual newsletter was mailed earlier this week and is now also on our website under the downloads tab. As TPEPA approaches its 20th anniversary we are taking stock in our work, we invite you to take our survey also on our website under the Take Our Survey tab. www.TrickeyPond.org

11/01/2025

Trickey Pond is showing off its autumn beauty. Today the TPEPA Board had our fall meeting, lots of exciting stuff to look forward to. The TPEPA will mark its 20th anniversary in 2026 and we will definitely be celebrating. Follow us to get all the updates we’ll posting here and on our website at www.TrickeyPond.org so you won’t miss a thing.

08/13/2025

Underwater turbulence from wakesurfing can ‘adversely’ impact Minnesota’s lakes, according to a highly anticipated study by the University of Minnesota.