The Michigan Clean Water Corps (MiCorps) is a network of volunteer monitoring programs in Michigan. It was created through an executive order by Governor Jennifer M. Granholm to assist the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in collecting and sharing water quality data for use in water resources management and protection programs.

The Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program 2008 Spring phosphorus results are now online. Click here to view the report.

CLMP Data Entry Prize Drawing! Win FREE 2009 ENROLLMENT in a CLMP monitoring parameter for your lake! Please read the prize drawing announcement for more information.

Importance of Quality Assurance Planning for Long-Term Monitoring Programs, by Jo Latimore and Ric Lawson, Water Resources IMPACT, September 2007. MiCorps is featured in this recent article about quality assurance in volunteer monitoring programs.

See MiCorps volunteer monitoring data being used as part of a major research study! The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is cooperating with MiCorps’ Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP) and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to use satellite remote sensing data to predict water quality in inland lakes across Michigan. By relating the satellite data to real data collected by MiCorps volunteers and professional limnologists, USGS can predict water quality in lakes for which little information is available. You can see the current results of this ongoing project online – including an interactive lake quality mapping tool: http://mi.water.usgs.gov/splan1/sp00301/remotesensing.php

Monitoring and Predicting Concentrations of Cyanobacterial Toxins in Michigan Lakes, by O. Sarnelle and H. Wandell from Michigan State University. This is the final project report on MiCorps’ Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program (CLMP) “Harmful Algae” study. Many CLMP volunteers contributed to this project by collecting extra water samples from their lakes in 2006.


MiCorps Fourth Annual Conference
October 20-21, 2008
Ralph A. MacMullan Conference Center on Higgins Lake, Roscommon
Save the date! The fourth annual MiCorps Conference will be held this fall at the Ralph A. MacMullan Conference Center. Please check our conference website for updates on conference planning and registration materials.

For the full calendar of events, please visit the calendar web page.



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