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• 'I have stayed the course'

• Searching for a cup of joe at a low price

• Help for first-time buyers

• City of Lodi begins large street repair project

• Former Tokay football player pleads not guilty to assault

• Regional Roundup

• Mounce, Johnson pull nomination papers for Lodi council

• Lodi Lake looking clearer this year

November 21st, 2009

• Logbook

• Holiday drive spreads cheer to U.S. troops

• Galt High students want board to approve open-campus policy

• Poisoning victims remain hospitalized

• Expert: Half a mushroom cap can be deadly

• Tokay grad files claim over Lodi's Grape Bowl

• Lodi Middle School holds annual Turkey Trot

• Regional Roundup

• No motive or suspect in shooting

• Sacramento cop arrested for alleged kidnapping

November 20th, 2009

• Acampo woman killed

• Salvation Army Kettle Kickoff

• Advocacy groups sue East Bay Municipal Utility District over Pardee expansion

• Regional Roundup

• Galt plans to help residents with energy-efficient projects

• Stable southeast of Lodi approved

• One year after a heart attack, Lodi's Judy Mims thanks rescuers

• National Guard troops return home in time for the holidays

• Real estate market gets on more solid ground

November 19th, 2009

• Operation: Christmas

• Logbook

• Suspect arrested after hiding in fridge

• Chase ends in crash

• Galt Joint Union High School Distric hires new superintendent

• Sales tax hike yields dividends: 5 new officers join Galt Police

• Lodi Unified School District board votes to cancel summer school for 2010

• Water surges in Mokelumne River yield more salmon

• Lodi City Council will consider redevelopment next June

• Lodi City Council plans to cap number of taco trucks at 22

• Corrections

November 18th, 2009

• Regional Roundup

• Paranormal group conducts second investigation of building

• Congress allocates money for local water projects

• Sarah Palin's book hits the shelves: Locals react

• Lodi man finds wife's ashes during police display of stolen property

• Galt City Council rejects study on rent stabilization

November 17th, 2009

• Paying tribute to a Lodian

• Lodi Budget and Finance Committee to look into ways to save money on employee benefits

• Regional Roundup

• Decision on summer school expected at tonight's Lodi Unified School District meeting

• Clements gets free water rescue boat

• Redevelopment to be discussed by Lodi City Council again

• Court reinstates death penalty for killer of Lodi grad

• Clarification

November 16th, 2009

• Correction

• Public Meetings

• City Council 'triple-dog dared' to ditch cars, use Lodi buses

• Sierra Adventure store to close after four years in Downtown Lodi

• Lodi's First Sip event showcases area wineries' latest vintages

• Three members of Lodi-area family fall ill after eating poisonous mushrooms they reportedly found at Lodi Lake

• Regional Roundup

November 14th, 2009

• Galt school district narrows superintendent search to one

• Regional Roundup

• Despite budget cuts, some Lodi Unified School District salaries continue to rise

• Watchful neighbor in Lodi helped bust suspected burglars

• New Galt city manager juggles job, family

• Despite an increase in homeless students, school districts look to bolster enrollment, raise revenue

• A first look at 2009 vintages at Lodi's First Sip wine-tasting event

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Lodi Lake looking clearer this year

Lodi Lake's visible water quality has improved by nearly 3 feet during the past year, says Kathy Grant, an active Lodi Lake docent and storm drain detective for the city of Lodi.

However, upstream on the Mokelumne River toward Woodbridge Dam, the water clarity isn't as good due to boating and water skiing on the river, Grant said.

Water clarity can be a measurement of healthy or unhealthy water, Grant said. Lodi's stormwater, or street runoff in the rainy season runoff, or landscape runoff drains untreated into Lodi Lake, the Mokelumne River or a local water body.

Participants used a Secchi Disk Dip-In, an 8-inch metal disk with alternating black and white quadrants, and lowered it into any lake, river, stream or body of water until it disappears. Grant said.

The depth that the disk disappears is carefully noted, she said. The depth of disappearance, called the Secchi depth measurement, measures the transparency, or clarity, of the upper water column, she said.

Lodi's measurements were taken Thursday at three sites on July 17, two of them at Lodi Lake and one was on the Mokelumne River, just upstream of Woodbridge Dam.

Grant says that lack of boating and swimming in Lodi Lake contributed to the lake's water clarity. Murkiness in the river was likely due to heavy jet-skiing and boating in the area, she added. More plant life grew on the bottom of the lake, perhaps caused by higher water temperatures, Grant said.

Detailed data will be posted on the city of Lodi's Web site, www.lodi.gov. click onto "storm drain detectives."

Contact reporter Ross Farrow at rossf@lodinews.com.