SICON’s Final 2016 Swimmer’s Itch Report Now Posted

November 3, 2016 Update — SICON’s 2016 Final Report:

Dear HLSIO Supporters,

Attached, below, is the SICON Final Report of their activities for 2016.  The work completed in 2016 represents Year 2 of the comprehensive science-based program that focused on actions to significantly reduce swimmer’s itch on Higgins Lake from both measured and reported epidemic levels.  In the summer of 2015, an extensive analysis of over 10,000 swimmer’s itch-carrying snails established a pre-program, summer lake-wide baseline avian schistosome infection level of 3.01%. A similar analysis in 2016 revealed a summer lake-wide snail infection level of 0.28%. In only the second year of SICON, LLC’s comprehensive swimmer’s itch control program on Higgins Lake the snail infection level on Higgins Lake was reduced by 90%.  Please read the attached report for further information on SICON’s activities for 2016.

• SICON’s Final Report for 2016