Help make a difference on Michigan’s inland lakes. Join the Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program today! Email
This summer, embrace the outdoors while monitoring water quality on your favorite lake. Enrollment is open through May 10, 2021.
Photo Credit: Lois Wolfson
The MiCorps Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP) is back and seeking volunteers who want to enjoy and protect Michigan’s 11,000 inland lakes. Michigan’s lakes are a valuable resource that provide beauty, recreation, and economic opportunities. As more people use and live on and around our lakes, the potential for pollution and degradation increases. Monitoring a lake’s vital signs through time allows for informed and personalized management of that lake. By being a CLMP volunteer, you can help make a difference on your favorite lake while also deepening your connection to it.
Nick Assendelft
The Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps), a network of volunteer monitoring programs that collect and share surface water quality data statewide, is accepting enrollments for the 2021 Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP) season.
Volunteers monitor water quality, invasive species and habitat conditions in lakes across Michigan. They receive detailed instructions, training and equipment. Data that is collected will be added to the MiCorps Data Exchange, a public database that includes CLMP lake information dating back to 1974.
Long term monitoring provides data needed to recognize the health or condition and changes over time of a lake’s water and habitat quality. Monitoring is also a great way to make a difference while enjoying the outdoors.