Outreach for the National Lakes Assessment

• Lake Manassas Showcased as Part of National Lakes Survey - EPA Region 3 Press Release issued on July 18, 2007

• Survey of the Nation's Lakes: A Fact Sheet for Communities - May 2007 (PDF) (2 pp, 113K, About PDF)

Examples of Outreach on National Lakes Assessment*

Indiana

IU Participates in National EPA Lake Survey Draws on SPEA for Indiana Water Research (Published on The Science Coalition Web site)

Minnesota

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Web Site on the National Lakes Assessment Project

Rhode Island

EPA is testing a few area ponds: Research part of a national effort (Published by The Westerly Sun, July 19, 2007)

Vermont

Information on Vermont's National Lakes Assessment survey work including list of lakes sampled in Vermont as part of the Assessment (PDF) (5 pp, 336K, About PDF)

Wisconsin

EPA Launches National Lake Survey | PDF Version (16 pp, 1.6MB, About PDF) (Published in Wisconsin's UW Extension's/Wisconsin Lakes Partnership's Lake Tides newsletter, Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter 2007, page 4)

Press Release, January 30, 2007 (Published by Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Weekly press packet)

Interview with Wisconsin Public Radio, Feb. 12, 2007 (Interview archived under the heading "EPA Analyzes Status Of Nation's Lakes")

* If states or others have published outreach articles, releases, etc. on the Lakes Survey, please send them to Anne Weinberg (weinberg.anne@epa.gov) and we can add them to the list of examples.

EPA Regional Web sites re. National Lakes Assessment

EPA Region 5