PRSRT STD ECRWSS U.S. Postage Paid Permit #017 ZIP CODE 99019 SEPTEMBER 2013 Circa 1972 Now 40 years old, how the LLSWD methodically wrote an environmental success story Pages 14-17 RECALLING SYMPHONY ‘EAT GOOD’ ORIGINAL LL CAPS FOPP AIMS FOR BOTH SCHOOLS CONCERT SERIES HEALTHY AND FAST PAGE 22 PAGE 27 PAGE 40 2 • SEPTEMBER 2013 NEWS The Splash HAIR IS ART Lake Karen Pagliaro Liberty Lake business Serving Liberty Lake since 1985 doctor A Cup of Joe owner and resident Residential and Office Cleaning International runway model, Dani Lundquist Licensed and Insured WSU professor goes Hair done on-location by Karen Pagliaro Scott Martinez Photography Hourly Rates back to early days of He has his doctorate degree in engineering and has been teaching at the WSU School 921-5663 LLSWD, lake protection of the Environment since 1992. He took up scuba diving in order to do research in SPECIALIZING IN HAIR COLOUR By Craig Howard TUESDAY-SATURDAY • BY APPT. ONLY Liberty Lake for his Master’s and eventu- SPLASH CONTRIBUTOR ally became a scuba instructor, teaching Touring Liberty Lake with Dr. Barry diving at WSU since 1982. According to Moore is like strolling through the Grand the National Association of Underwa- COMPARE & SAVE Canyon with Ansel Adams or exploring ter Instructors, Moore has certified more the farms of New England with Robert scuba divers — around 8,000 — than any Frost. other instructor in the country. YOU FREE FROM PROPANE F ARE EES? From identifying a great blue heron in The North American Lake Management the far distance to pointing out an area Society has honored Moore with a techni- near the county park where early home- cal merit award in 2011 for his restoration steaders once harvested crops, Moore is a work on both Liberty Lake and Newman annerFURNACE & FUEL, INC. floating encyclopedia of lake history and Lake. He serves on the editorial board for Keeping You Comfortable for Over 90 Years traits. He began surveying the lake in 1978 “Lake and Reservoir Management,” the when he arrived as a graduate student with journal published by NALMS, and is also Banner has no hidden fees! No delivery fee and Washington State University to help with active in the Washington State Lake Pro- no hazmat fee. Compare and save with Banner. a treatment strategy designed to reduce tection Association. Call today for your propane quote! the levels of phosphorous in the water. Improved water quality in Liberty Lake Moore came to the Palouse from his has acted as a catalyst for development (509) 535.1711 • 800.570.2897 www.bannerfuel.com native Alabama where he had graduated since the involvement of Funk, Moore from Birmingham Southern College with and WSU. Moore estimates that nearly a degree in biology and plans to pursue a all of the homes now around the 710-acre career in air pollution control. At WSU, lake have been built since he began taking he discovered the work of Dr. Bill Funk, samples 35 years ago. Before that, he re- one of the pioneers in lake protection who calls little more than cabins and cottages. had been working with the founders of In addition to the community of shoreline DON’T WAIT MORE THAN the Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District dwellers, the lake is home to a thriving since the early 1970s. Not long after ar- ecosystem that includes rainbow trout, TO GET LOW riving in Pullman, Moore would shift his bass, perch and blue gill as well as water- area of study from the air to the water, or fowl like osprey, ducks and eagles. limnology, with Liberty Lake serving as Over the years, Moore has run into BACK PAIN the central research lab. muskrats on Sandy Beach, seen bass nest- These days, graduate students from ing below the surface and pulled rows of 14 TREATMENT WSU migrate to Liberty Lake twice a invasive milfoil by hand. Then there was DAYS month from May to October to take sam- the winter of 1992, when an influx of ples on the lake. With Funk now retired crawfish meant filling a five-gallon bucket and living in Utah, Moore has taken over and transporting them back to Pullman the coordination of the research here as for a boil while catching the second half well as on Newman Lake and several sites of Washington State’s legendary “Snow Why 14 days? Because early treatment through on the Colville Indian Reservation. He Bowl” victory over cross-state rival Wash- the Low Back Pain Revolution can increase both makes the trip from Pullman to the great- ington in the Apple Cup. the success of your recovery and cost savings! er Spokane area once or twice a month The Splash visited with Moore about his during the warm weather season. years studying Liberty Lake during a re- “Dr. Moore and his predecessor, Dr. cent stop he made in the community. N Funk with Washington State University, S have been instrumental to the success of What were some of your first 90 WIN E AV G the Liberty Lake restoration,” LLSWD L impressions of the Liberty Lake OX N KN E General Manager BiJay Adams said. Q. community when you visited N 23505 E. Appleway Ave, Ste 106 M “Washington State University was the first here in 1978? O VE L A T Y Liberty Lake, WA 99019 connection homeowners made to address E A HUNTWOOD R EW L N R P D AP water quality issues on Liberty Lake. For MA E Well, there was nothing where the D 509-891-2258 45 years, they have been dedicated to the IS whole city of Liberty Lake is now. ON management and continued protection of S A. I remember kind of where the golf T Visit our website to learn more about our this precious resource.” EWER & W ITRON S A course is now, north of that was just a • T E E K R A Low Back Pain Revolution D : L I Moore chose Liberty Lake for Y S turf farm. 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Phosphorous LAKE has to come from terrestrial sources, so Continued from page 2 in most fresh waters, phosphorous is the nutrient relative to the need of the the reason they came in and built that plant that’s in shortest supply. So, it’s the plant was they wanted a place where they phosphorous that really drives the plant could get good workers and keep them growth you have in the water. If you get here, and they said they wanted a com- too much phosphorous, blue-green algae munity that had a commitment to the en- are able to use nitrogen that’s dissolved vironment, and the lake restoration was from the atmosphere.