Lake Erie Rangers - Water Rangers

The Lake Erie Rangers (formerly the Lake Erie Guardians) is a Water Rangers community-driven initiative designed to enhance water quality monitoring across the Lake Erie basin, with a particular focus on the Niagara region and the western basin of the lake. Through this program, community scientists play a vital role in collecting data on baseline water quality and key contaminants, including fecal bacteria, nutrients, and chloride (road salts). By addressing critical gaps in regional water quality data, the project supports innovative pilot programs to develop and refine new monitoring methods.

This ambitious three-year project (2024–2027) is made possible through a $330,000 grant from the Canada Water Agency under the Freshwater Ecosystems Initiative, which supports. CWA funding supports community-based science monitoring components of the project. The Province of Ontario's Great Lakes Local Action Fund (2025) contributes to the winter road salt monitoring components of this monitoring.