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November 9, 2026

Support LSM

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Water Quality Program

WQ Community Technical Discussion

Winterizing your Meter

Help Track Lake Ice

Autumn Cyanobacteria

Water Quality Data

Aquatic Invasive Species Program

AIS Data

Office Hours

Turn Your RMD into a

Gift for Lake Stewards of Maine

If you're receiving a Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) from a retirement account this fall, consider using a portion of it to support Lake Stewards of Maine. An eligible charitable gift from your IRA can offer tax advantages while making a meaningful difference for Maine's lakes.

Your support makes it possible for Lake Stewards of Maine to continue our work engaging, training and educating volunteer Lake Stewards across the state. Individual contributions are essential to sustaining this work and expanding our reach to more volunteers and lake communities throughout Maine.

Our goal this year is to raise $65,000 from individual supporters.

Your RMD gift can help us reach that goal and ensure this important work continues. Thank you for helping us protect Maine's lakes, and happy fall! 💙

Next Community Water Quality Technical Discussions 

Our next session will be held on

November 18th at 2 pm.

Winterize Your Meter. Protect Your Equipment!

As the monitoring season winds down, take time to properly winterize your DO meter and probe to prevent damage and extend their lifespan.

Visit our MeterFest & Meter Maintenance page for winterization instructions specific to your meter.

Rather have LSM handle it? You're welcome to leave your meter with us over the winter! Contact us to arrange drop-off.

Help Track Lake Ice

As fall transitions into winter, please be on the lookout for changes in ice cover. Lake Stewards of Maine invites volunteers and lake communities to help document these seasonal shifts by submitting ice-in observations for their lakes.

Tracking ice cover is a key part of understanding how Maine’s lakes are responding to changing climate patterns and what that means for water quality and ecosystem health.

Resources can be found on the Ice Tracking page of our website.

If your lake isn’t currently part of this effort, we encourage you to begin this winter. No certification or lakefront residence is required for this. We encourage anyone interested to submit sightings.

Your observations help build a critical long-term record of lake conditions across Maine.

Link to ice reporting for or submit by email to Stewards@lakestewardsme.org.

Autumn Cyanobacteria 🦠

Please keep an eye out for suspicious green water, surface scum, paint-like streaks, or an overall greening of the lake. If you think you've spotted a bloom 🕵️, report it using the form below. You can also check the dashboard to see reports submitted from around the state.

Every report matters. Your observations help us better understand cyanobacteria activity across Maine and help keep Maine's lakes safe.

Water Quality Data

The deadline for sending in 2026 water quality data has passed, but it is still important to submit your data to complete the statewide dataset. You may mail your hard copy data to LSM, or scan and email to Jonnie, at the address below.



For those entering data using Survey123, LSM still needs hard copies of your data for proper chain of custody.

AIS Data

We’d like to encourage all our amazing invasive plant patrollers to submit remaining AIS Screening Survey data forms as soon as possible. Every data sheet helps us track which lakes have been surveyed and whether any invasive plants are present. Data received by November 15th is guaranteed to be included in the next data update on Lakes of Maine.

💻 Using Survey123? Make sure your data is entered in the 2026 AIS Survey and check out our helpful webinar 👉 Survey123 for IPPers : https://www.lakestewardsofmaine.org/survey123-webinar-2025/

Winter Hours

Monday and Wednesday

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

or by appointment.

We recommend calling ahead

(207) 783-7733

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