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Zyanya Ramirez MEDIA STATEMENT May 17, 2023 CONTACT Rick Whetsel SAWPA Senior Watershed Manager 951-354-4222 rwhetsel@sawpa.org The following statement has been prepared in response to the recent photos from a Canyon Lake resident concerning alum flocs in areas of the lake. “The cause of the floating alum floc shown is mostly likely due to the significantly …
Lake Elsinore & San Jacinto Watersheds Authority (LESJWA), is informing the Canyon Lake Lake Elsinore & San Jacinto Watersheds Authority (LESJWA), is informing the Canyon Lake community that doses of alum will be applied to the lake in the main body, east bay and the area north of the causeway from April 10-14, 2023. Alum …
Lake Elsinore & San Jacinto Watersheds Authority (LESJWA), is informing the Canyon Lake community that doses of alum will be applied to the lake in the main body, east bay and the area north of the causeway from October 11-15, 2021. Alum binds with phosphorus in the lake water, drops the nutrient to the lake …
Hands-on tag and release events to survey the fishery and identify short and long-term projects to improve water quality.
“The revised and more scientifically defensible TMDLs are evidence that the efforts of LESJWA have made, and continue to make, reflect a positive impact to the watershed,” shared Mark Norton, LESJWA administrator. “We achieved what we set out to accomplish but know that there is more work to follow to adapt to continued drought cycle challenges. LESJWA and the TMDL Task Force have had to seek creative solutions to a complex situation.”
As a member of our watershed, the Lake Elsinore & San Jacinto Watersheds Authority (LESJWA) invites you to the 2018 LESJWA Water Summit. Our watershed faces unique challenges that require action and agency collaboration to seek solutions for watershed management. The Summit will feature information on how the TMDL Task Force has worked with the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board to implement watershed monitoring, mitigation projects, modeling and a variety of other solutions to meet TMDL targets.
Lake Elsinore & San Jacinto Watersheds Authority (LESJWA), is informing the Canyon Lake community that doses of alum will be applied to the lake in the main body, east bay and the area north of the causeway from February 12-16, 2018. This dose will be the seventh Canyon Lake alum application that has taken place.
Lake Elsinore & San Jacinto Watersheds Authority (LESJWA), is informing the Canyon Lake community that doses of alum will be applied to the lake in the main body, east bay and the area north of the causeway from September 25-29, 2017. This dose will be the seventh Canyon Lake alum application that has taken place.
Learn how water scientists conduct routine water quality sampling of Lake Elsinore. This is just one of many ways the LESJWA organization is working to improve Lake Elsinore.
Canyon Lake Alum Treatments Prove Successful in Managing Water Quality – Recent study reports results from lake study on alum applications