Keeping SML Clean and Safe

Help Keep SML Clean and Safe

Donate and Protect SML Today and for Future Generations

Clean Water

Do you want clean water for swimming and fishing?

Will you help prevent future Harmful Algal Bloom swimming advisories at SML?

What is it worth to keep SML healthy for many years to come?

SMLA is the longest-serving advocate of the lake. We can continue to help keep your beautiful lake clean with additional resources to monitor for Harmful Algae Blooms and other water quality concerns.

Safe Recreation

How important is safety on and around SML?

Do you want to feel safe driving your boat and pulling family and friends on a tube or a wakeboard?

What’s it worth to prevent injuries on SML?

SMLA provides Water Safety tools for all residents and guests. With additional resources, we will promote safe boating, water sports, and lakefront living.

Make a Splash – Donate Today

All donations are tax-deductible and 100% invested in the programs that keep SML clean and safe.

How big of a Splash will you make?
Suggestion donation levels:

High Dive
Whale Tail
Cannonball
Jack-Knife
Back-Flip

$1000
$500
$100
$50
$ Any amount

Everyone who enjoys Smith Mountain Lake can help protect it. No one wants harmful algae, injuries, or anything else to damage the lake’s reputation as the Jewel of the Blue Ridge. Our goal is to raise $100,000 to protect SML – today and for future generations. We’re asking all lake lovers to make a financial donation to help safeguard SML. Please make a SPLASH!

John VidovichSMLA President

Donate by Credit Card

Donate by Donor Advised Fund

Donate by Check

Send Donation to:

SMLA
400 Scruggs Rd.
Suite 2100
Moneta, VA 24104

Examples of How Donations Are Used

Purchase of laboratory-grade microscopes and supplies for the identification of cyanobacteria. Laboratory supplies and field collection equipment are needed to quickly identify if harmful algal bloom conditions are occurring.
Support the SMLA Dock Watch program. Lack of state resources and rapid response to HAB reports filed by residents causes delay and uncertainty. By monitoring at dock locations, we can shorten the delay by knowing what’s in the water, sooner.
Kick-off watershed investigations in areas hardest hit by HABs in 2023. This includes expanding the work with Ferrum College to evaluate watershed conditions. Additional Ferrum work to be funded includes a deep dive into data sets from the past 35+ years to identify changing conditions and an analysis of land use changes over time. Additional work will be planned for assessing nutrient loads in the watersheds and investigations of stormwater inputs into the lake.
Amplify the importance of safe boating so everyone at the lake can safely enjoy it. With the growing number of boaters on SML, it is critical that everyone understands local etiquette and how to properly navigate on SML.