Lake Partners Program

The Lake Partners Program (LPP) is a free program run by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE). LPP volunteers submit a water sample from their lake each spring that MOE test for total phosphorous (TP) and calcium. The volunteer also measures water clarity,(using a Secchi disk), each month and submits that data to MOE each fall. MOE publishes all this data from hundreds of lakes in a huge spreadsheet. To make the data from the Kearney Watershed more easily accessible, KWEF extracts the data for our lakes from this spreadsheet and publishes it on our website, Newsletter and in the WQM report. We monitor TP data closely because phosphorous is considered one of the elements responsible for algae blooms