Westcolang Lake Conservancy
Protecting Westcolang for Future Generations
Join us in preserving local ecosystems and wildlife habitats.
Westcolang Lake Conservancy
Join us in preserving local ecosystems and wildlife habitats.
At Westcolang Lake Conservancy, our soul mission is to foster a united community dedicated to safeguarding and increasing the health of the lake and it's wildlife with complete transparency. While we enjoy it's rich history of swimming, boating, fishing, and securing a prosperous future for generations.
During 2016 we noticed a gradual decline of the quantity of fish in the lake.
During 2021 and 2022, the gradual decline became even more noticeable becoming gradually worse each year.
Discussions about the decline of the lakes ecosystem became a common place at the Westcolang Association meetings. Dissolved oxygen testing started taking place around this time as well.
We also discovered multiple permits pulled in 2019 to disperse both Rodeo and Reward herbicides in the lake. (Permits are available on our website)
Dissolved oxygen readings were ongoing which very consistently showed harmfully low DO readings below 5 parts per million were particularly observed between late July and early August.
Aquatic life begins dying at DO levels of 5 parts per million.
The 5 parts per million is the standard threshold that the Department of Environmental Protection has established.
Discovered herbicides were being applied to the lake. (Material Safety Data Sheet available on our website)
In 2025, concerned waterfront property owners partnered with Solitude Lake Management for testing. Low dissolved oxygen levels and temperature anamalies were discovered witch severely affect both plant and aquatic marine life and sharply increases bacteria in the lake.
The birth and launch of Westcolang Conservancy.
Solitude Lake Management to recommence testing twice per month beginning in March to test dissolved oxygen levels, temperatures of the water columns, and other tests not currently performed including for ammonia, total nitrogen, total phosphorous, total suspended solids, and biological oxygen demand. (Updates on lake study will be posted as soon as they are available on our website)
We would love for all our community members to please submit your pictures of your favorite memories on the lake for all to enjoy.
Westcolang Conservancy also plans to launch an effort to perform video interviews with the oldest members of the lake community so we can capture as much of our rich history as we possibly can before it disappears. Once completed and edited, they will be posted for all to enjoy.


We started Westcolang Lake Conservancy with a simple goal in mind: For any resident to get current accurate information with regard to the current health of the lake, short and long term goals for the health of the lake, and current and upcoming events.

At Westcolang Conservancy, we believe that we are one community with one vision. That vision is, the health and prosperity of Westcolang Lake. The lake is what brings us all to the same place every year, and to the same body of water.

Currently what we are working diligently on is keeping the most competent biologists on the lake and completing a comprehensive report that will give us a clear path to improve the health of the lake to a safe and sustainable level. We would certainly welcome any other ideas or anyone willing to help with this effort.

If you have any questions or feedback, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us. We're always interested in what we are doing right and we are always interested in what we might be doing wrong.

Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and help create a strong coalition. Testing our water in the lake along with finding ways to restore dissolved oxygen levels. Costs through 2026 will exceed $10,000 and we are hoping for concerned Westcolang Lake residents to support this effort.











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