Smart Lake Erie Watershed expanding with help from local Cleveland partners

In 2021, Cleveland Water Alliance (CWA), Cleveland Water, and LimnoTech activated the Smart Lake Erie Watershed, an award-winning regional smart water monitoring network - the first in the nation - to inform and improve public health, safety, utility operations, supply chain management and water security throughout Greater Cleveland. 

Today, four smart buoys monitor water quality in Central Lake Erie as part of the Smart Lake Erie Watershed initiative. The buoys will be deployed this month as the new monitoring season kicks off, expanding the initiative and enhancing its ability to provide functional, streamlined solutions for water quality monitoring of ever-changing lake conditions including dangerous winds and waves, thermal upwellings, hypoxic waters, and toxic algal blooms.