Phosphorus data for the Pembina Valley Watershed District were generated by the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN), a long-term program designed to identify localized phosphorus hotspots where action is required to improve Lake Winnipeg water quality.

Phosphorus data for the Northeast Red Watershed District were generated by the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN), a long-term program designed to identify localized phosphorus hotspots where action is required to improve Lake Winnipeg water quality.

Phosphorus data for the Inter-Mountain Watershed District were generated by the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN), a long-term program designed to identify localized phosphorus hotspots where action is required to improve Lake Winnipeg water quality.

Phosphorus data for the East Interlake Watershed District were generated by the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN), a long-term program designed to identify localized phosphorus hotspots where action is required to improve Lake Winnipeg water quality.

Phosphorus data for the City of Winnipeg were generated by the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN), a long-term program designed to identify localized phosphorus hotspots where action is required to improve Lake Winnipeg water quality.

Phosphorus data for the Central Assiniboine Watershed District were generated by the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN), a long-term program designed to identify localized phosphorus hotspots where action is required to improve Lake Winnipeg water quality.

Phosphorus data for the Assiniboine West Watershed District were generated by the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN), a long-term program designed to identify localized phosphorus hotspots where action is required to improve Lake Winnipeg water quality.

The Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN) 2020-2022 Results shares maps of phosphorus hotspots from 2020, 2021 and 2022. Pivoting quickly to adapt to COVID-19 health protections, LWCBMN was able to continue collecting water samples throughout the pandemic, building our long-term phosphorus data set. With seven years of data now in hand, LWCBMN points the way to evidence-based solutions for Lake Winnipeg.

Submitted to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), our policy brief identifies how ECCC’s regional water programs, including the Lake Winnipeg Basin Program, are perfectly positioned to link community concerns and federal policy priorities. We highlight how phosphorus data generated by the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN) can support regional decision-making and funding allocation, and urge any renewed federal program to explicitly recognize the value of LWCBMN data in order to effectively complete the data-to-impact cycle.

We’re excited to have caught up on pandemic-related delays with the release of regional reports from the Lake Winnipeg Community-Based Monitoring Network (LWCBMN)’s 2020 and 2021 field seasons!