Volunteer: Water Quality Day

The Squam Lakes Association's water-quality data set is the oldest in the northeast, and we need YOU to help keep it going. Volunteer water quality monitoring is a great way to get involved in the Squam community, get outside, and contribute to important research. Join us to collect water column samples and a data profile at two of our monitoring sites on Sunday, July 20, from 9am – 3 pm.

The purpose of this excursion is to get folks out on the water and show them how the SLA and its volunteers collect water quality data. Participants will get hands-on experience using our equipment from the boat. We will meet at the SLA headquarters and then head out to Loon Reef and Moultonborough Bay to complete two water samples. Once we're finished, we will dock on Moon or Bowman Island to eat lunch and take in the scenic views. 

The SLA has been building its water quality data set since 1978. Our volunteer network is crucial to gathering samples and measurements at our deep-water monitoring sites across the watershed.

Minors must be accompanied by an adult, and registration is required for this event.

Volunteers should bring plenty of water, lunch, snacks, sunscreen, bug spray, appropriate clothing, as we will be out on the water for several hours. Be prepared for your hands and arms to get wet as we take water quality measurements. Come prepared for rain as well. As long as it's not too windy or thundering, we will go out.

Hunter Hine is an LRCC member serving as a Volunteer Program Assistant with the SLA for the 2025 season. He hails from Baltimore County, Maryland, where he previously worked in journalism and public affairs. He loves wading into streams and waving around a fly-fishing rod for hours. Sometimes, he catches a fish that way.

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Meet in the great room and we will head out toward Moultonborough Bay.

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