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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.

An alum application has been scheduled for February 7- 10, pending final testing and recommendation from scientists. Recent rains push flows of excess nutrients into lake; alum also reduces sedimentation.

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

Residents of Canyon Lake recently witnessed the sixth application of alum to the main body, coves, and north causeway of the lake. With the support of the Lake Elsinore and Canyon Lake Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Task Force that is seeking to significantly improve water quality and ecology in Canyon Lake, the applications have proven successful in minimizing algae growth.

On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, the LESJWA Water Summit took place. Presentations were shown to detail how the current drought is impacting our region, what LESJWA is doing to further protect the local watersheds, the accomplishments made, and upcoming major projects to help reach water quality goals.

Public Information Meeting Encourages Community Involvement. Upcoming Canyon Lake alum application public information and outreach meeting welcomes community.

Meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 7-8 pm at Canyon Lake City Hall Council Chambers – 31516 Railroad Canyon Road. Canyon Lake, CA 92587