Reducing water pollution in Lake Whatcom: ‘Plenty of work cut out for us’
Angela Strecker, Western Washington University’s director of the Institute for Watershed Studies, applauded the group for its unique adaptive management strategies.
However, the findings from the last year of monitoring by showed results that Strecker called “a mixed bag,” with improvement in surface water phosphorus but a lot of phosphorus still coming up from the bottom of the lake at each test site. Dissolved oxygen levels also declined in 2024, a bad sign for lake health.