Documentation of Lakes Monitored by Ecology's Freshwater Monitoring Unit

This table lists reports produced by Ecology's Freshwater Monitoring Unit, as well as links to other reports with data from Washington's lakes. A listing of monitored lakes can be found here. (LWQA="Lake Water Quality Assessment," the title of our 1989-2000 volunteer lake monitoring program.)

Data Year	Title	Description
1989	Lake Water Quality Assessment Project, 1989	LWQA Report: Volunteer-monitoring and Ecology staff visits.
	1989 Lakes and Reservoir Water Quality Assessment Program: Survey of Chemical Contaminants in Ten Washington Lakes	An investigation of chemical contaminants in 10 of the LWQA lakes.
	Water Quality Survey of 25 Citizen-Volunteer Lakes from Washington State	More detailed Ecology staff investigation of 25 of the LWQA lakes
1990	Lake Water Quality Assessment Project, 1990	LWQA Report: Volunteer-monitoring and Ecology staff visits.
1990	Water Quality Survey of 15 "Volunteer-Monitored" Lakes in Washington State	More detailed Ecology staff investigation of 15 of the LWQA lakes
1991	Lake Water Quality Assessment Program, 1991-1992	LWQA Report: Volunteer-monitoring and Ecology staff visits (combined with 1992 monitoring results).
1992	Lake Water Quality Assessment Program, 1991-1992	LWQA Report: Volunteer-monitoring and Ecology staff visits (combined with 1991 monitoring results).
1992	Survey of Chemical Contaminants in Ten Washington Lakes	An investigation of chemical contaminants in 10 of the LWQA lakes.
1993	Lake Water Quality Assessment Program, 1993	LWQA Report: Volunteer-monitoring and Ecology staff visits.
1994	Water Quality Assessments of Selected Lakes within Washington State - 1994	LWQA Report: Volunteer-monitoring and Ecology staff visits.
1995	The 1995-1996 LWQA Report was lost during the publication process	Data from 1995 are available but unpublished
1996	The 1995-1996 LWQA Report was lost during the publication process	Data from 1996 are available but unpublished
1997	Water Quality Assessments of Selected Lakes within Washington State: 1997	LWQA Report: Volunteer-monitoring and Ecology staff visits.
1998	Water Quality Assessments of Volunteer-Monitored Lakes Within Washington State, 1998-1999	LWQA Report: Volunteer-monitoring and Ecology staff visits (combined with 1999 monitoring results).
1998	Water Quality Assessments of Selected Lakes within Washington State: 1998	Detailed Ecology staff investigation of 20 lakes
1999	Water Quality Assessments of Volunteer-Monitored Lakes Within Washington State, 1998-1999	LWQA Report: Volunteer-monitoring and Ecology staff visits (combined with 1998 monitoring results)..
1999	Water Quality Assessments of Selected Lakes within Washington State: 1999	Detailed Ecology staff investigation of 20 lakes
2000	No report.	The lake monitoring program ended in 2000. Profile data are available for some lakes, otherwise only Secchi depths are available.
2001	No report.	Only Moses Lake was monitored in 2001. Unpublished data are available.
2002	No report.	There was no lake monitoring in 2002.
2003	No report.	There was no lake monitoring in 2003.
2004	Lake Tapps (Pierce County) Monitoring, Final Data Report	Lake Tapps Monitoring
2005	Lake Tapps (Pierce County) Monitoring, Final Data Report	Lake Tapps Monitoring

Other Reports:
Various	Various	Water Supply Bulletins focused on lakes (Wolcott's 2-volume "Lakes of Washington" and WSBs 42, 43, 49, and 57) in PDF format
1994	1994 Statewide Water Quality Assessment Lakes Chapter - Companion Document to WA State 305(b)	No independent data are presented here. This report contains, among other things, an analysis of trends in Secchi disk data and a proposed priority ranking of lakes for management actions.