How You Can Help

Contact the SMLA office at theoffice@smlassociation.org to volunteer!

You don’t need to be an expert. No prior experience required. You just need to love the lake and have a couple of hours each month to volunteer.

Opportunities:

  • Be a member of one of our committees
  • Collect water samples
  • Identify bugs in streams to determine water quality
  • Work on the Vessel Pump Out Program
  • Collect weed samples
  • Monitor parts of the lake for floating debris
  • Participate in a lake clean up day in your neighborhood
  • Help with social media
  • Support SMLA office operations
  • Help homeowners understand buffer landscape techniques and benefits
  • Promote water and boating safety
  • Serve on the Board of Direcctors
  • Support water monitoring and safe recreation education programs in local schools

You can work with others on issues, such as:

  • The shoreline management plan
  • AEP relicensing
  • Local government relations

Share your expertise:

  • Watersheds
  • Wetland restoration programs
  • Storm water runoff
  • Water quality
  • Landscaping and planting to reduce erosion
  • Fish habitats