● 87 nearshore and 5 offshore monitoring stations covering all five Yahara lakes
● All 25 public beaches monitored at least twice a week
● 90 volunteers contributing 1,910 LakeForecast condition reports
● Algal toxin testing at 10 sites in partnership with UW-Madison Civil & Environmental Engineering
● Partnership with Lake Waubesa Conservation Association to add 4 new monitoring sites
● Partnership with Friends of Lake Kegonsa (FOLKS) to add 3 new monitoring sites
● Volunteer celebration and trivia night at Christy’s Landing

• 87 nearshore and 7 offshore monitoring stations covering all five Yahara lakes
• All 25 public beaches monitored at least twice a week
• 96 volunteers contributing 2,094 LakeForecast condition reports
• Algal toxin testing at 7 sites in partnership with UW-Engineering
• Partnership with BloomOptix to pilot rapid cyanobacteria detection using digital microscopes
• Partnership with Friends of Lake Kegonsa Society (FOLKS) to add 6 new monitoring sites
• Volunteer appreciation night at Christy’s Landing

• 77 nearshore monitoring stations including all 25 public beaches and 7 offshore sites
• Program record of 101 volunteer water quality monitors
• In partnership with the UW-Madison Water Systems & Society Research Group, 7 volunteers measured microcystin (algal toxin) concentrations throughout the summer
• Clean Lakes Alliance participated in a global collaboration with BloomOptix to collect microscopic images of algae and cyanobacteria cells to pilot a rapid identification method
• 2,105 water quality condition reports taken throughout the 2021 monitoring season

• 71 nearshore monitoring stations including all 25 public beaches; 7 offshore sites
• Performed algal toxin (microcystin) testing at six public beaches in partnership with UW-Engineering
• LakeForecast featured weekly on Channel 3000 in new partnership to report water quality conditions on local television
• 2,294 water quality condition reports taken throughout the 2020 monitoring season

• 71 nearshore monitoring stations including all 25 public beaches; 7 offshore sites
• Continued microcystin testing at James Madison Park, in partnership with UW-Engineering
• 2,005 water quality condition reports taken throughout the 2019 monitoring season

• 79 nearshore monitoring stations including all 25 public beaches; 7 offshore sites
• E. coli bacteria and microcystin cyanobacteria toxin sampling pilots launched 

• 62 nearshore monitoring stations, 7 offshore sites
• 1,258 data reports

• 72 nearshore monitoring stations, 7 offshore sites
• 1,258 data reports

• 58 nearshore monitoring stations
• 1,258 data reports

• Launched lakeforecast.org mobile-ready website
• 46 nearshore monitoring stations
• 945 data reports

• Citizen monitoring pilot launched first year
• E. coli bacteria testing at James Madison Park beach
• 10 nearshore monitoring stations
• 204 data reports

• Citizen monitoring task force formed
• Program designed under leadership of Jon Standridge (retired Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene) and Dr. Dick Lathrop (retired WDNR & Center for Limnology)