How it works
Our lakes participate in the Lake Partner Program, Ontario’s volunteer-based water monitoring network. A trained lake steward on each lake collects the samples and readings, the province analyzes them, and the results become part of a public, decades-long scientific record. It costs the province a fraction of professional monitoring and gives our lakes a continuous health history that few Ontario lakes have. Learn more about the program from FOCA, which coordinates it province-wide.
We’re also evaluating additions to the program: deep-water phosphorus sampling with a Van Dorn sampler, a conductivity logger for continuous chloride monitoring, and an invasive species management plan.