Protecting Crystal Lake Now for Generations to Come.

The Crystal Lake Watershed Association

is a nonprofit (501c3) organization of concerned citizens committed to protecting the beauty and water quality of Crystal Lake and its surrounding environment. It engages in monitoring, education, and advocacy on behalf of the broad community for whom Crystal Lake is a vital economic, recreational, and aesthetic resource.

Merganser and Swimmer’s Itch reporting

REPORT SIGHTINGS OF MERGANSER BROODS or SWIMMER’S ITCH CASES HERE.
 
YOUR HELP IS ESSENTIAL AS THE CLWA FIGHTS THIS SCOURGE ON CRYSTAL LAKE!
 
Although the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has cancelled permits for relocating mergansers during the summer of 2025, the CLWA is continuing to maintain its invaluable database that supports research on the causes and prevention of Swimmer’s Itch.
 
Please report your sightings of merganser broods (NOT individual ducks) and cases of Swimmer’s Itch using the “button” below.
 

For more on swimmer’s itch and how to avoid it, see the CLWA brochure HERE.

CLWA News Overview

Zoning for lake health

There’s lots of building going on around Crystal Lake. Zoning and other local and state regulations are in place to help protect …

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CLWA Annual Meeting held on July 24

CLWA members met on Saturday, July 24, at the Mills Community House in Benzonia and virtually via Zoom for the 2021 Annual Members Meeting. President Dave Wynne presented …

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CLWA plans treatment of invasive Eurasian Watermilfoil

The CLWA’s comprehensive three-year (2016-2018) survey of the aquatic plants in Crystal Lake revealed a generally healthy lake, and identified Eurasian watermilfoil (“EWM”, Myriophyllum spicatum) as the only invasive plant species currently …

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Water quality testing results for 2019 now available

As part of the Michigan Cooperative Lakes Monitoring Program, the CLWA sponsors comprehensive scientific testing of Crystal Lake’s water. Monitoring provides advance warning, so that early action can be taken to protect Crystal Lake. The latest results …

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Protecting Crystal Lake Now for Generations to Come.

P.O. Box 89 • Beulah, MI 49617
info@crystallakewatershed.org
231.882.4001 Tel

The Crystal Lake Watershed Association (CLWA), is a non-profit (501c3) organization.

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