Smart Lake Erie: The Future of Real-Time Water Monitoring

Session: 59. - Innovative Monitoring across the Great Lakes

Max Herzog, Cleveland Water Alliance, [email protected]

Abstract

Cleveland Water Alliance have activated of a broad network of cross-sector community partners around nutrient pollution to establish the next generation of intelligent water management systems: the “Smart Lake.” Western Lake Erie communities impacted by Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) require high-resolution, real-time nutrient monitoring to effectively and efficiently reduce the pollution that drives this regional ecological crisis. Current methods are incapable of benchmarking the non-point sources of nutrient pollution, let alone inform an effective strategy for its mitigation. We plan to implement a set of advanced monitoring and analytics tools that integrate and leverage diverse data streams that will enable a more intelligent approach to watershed-level nutrient management, directly improving quality of life in impacted communities. Perhaps more importantly, the digital infrastructure necessary could scale to create a “Smart Lake” system that integrates rapidly changing intelligent technologies to inform management of a broad and evolving set of challenges across Lake Erie and its watersheds. The benefits of such a system can be broken down as follows: A Smart Lake means 1) Clean Water 2) Smart People 3) a Connected Watershed 4) a Blue Economy. This talk will explore these concepts and more as we dive deep into the possibilities of a Smart Lake Erie.

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data storage and retrieval

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data acquisition

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ecosystem health

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Internet of Water

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Innovation

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Intelligent Water Systems