Our Path Forward

Please join us by continuing to support a track record of collaborative achievement for improving Lake Waukewan’s water quality. Managing storm water runoff into the lakes is the major tool in protecting and enhancing water quality. The knowledge and experience that WWC has gained in the past five years is ideally suited to implement smaller projects that taken together can have a large impact. Our focus will be on conservation easements for smaller tracts and related runoff mitigation projects large enough to be eligible for grants, but smaller than most towns want to undertake. We will also collaborate with other governmental and conservation organizations on larger projects where matching contributions are essential to winning grant funding.

What does it take to make things happen? Foremost, we need your sustained financial support from your dues. Participation at a higher level of membership will stoke our conservation fund. As part of your estate planning, consider a legacy gift to our conservation fund. Our directors will be glad to discuss this with you.

We also need your specialized knowledge and participation. We need expertise in legal services, environmental science, permitting, land use, database management, publications, community organization, fund raising, event planning, and grant applications. We need members to monitor ongoing activities in all of the towns in the watershed to ensure that we respond in a timely way to issues as they arise. A great deal of this work can be accomplished from anywhere using Internet resources. We need hands-on effort to staff the Lake Host program, lake water sampling, and periodic site walks, maintenance and cleanup work. We are also seeking candidates for participation on our board of directors.