Hero StudioTelehealth for lakes
Affordable testing and monitoring tools, with your results on one timeline.
About
A place to keep your lake's data, a way to make more of it, and people to ask when you're not sure what it means.
Portal
Your dashboard, map, Lake Snapshot, analytics, field notes and images, past events and programs — plus the neighbors who subscribe on your lake. The app carries the same thing to the shoreline.
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Lab kits, field tests, real-time buoys, satellite imagery, drone surveys — mostly DIY, shipped to your front door. Every item says what it measures, where on the lake it belongs, and what it won't tell you.
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Not a treatment company, not a consultancy — just limnologists and experienced lake people you can ask when the data doesn't make sense. Available to Plus, Lake Admin, and PRO subscribers.
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How to get started
Agency records, old lab reports, volunteer readings, consultant studies. We pull them onto one timeline before you spend a dollar on new sampling.
A lake is many places at once. The boat landing, the deep hole, and the far cove behave nothing alike. Pick the spots and the seasons that matter to you.
Lab kits, field tests, real-time buoys, satellite, drone. Every item in the Toolbox says what it measures, what it can't, and when it's worth buying. You decide.
Every result lands on your timeline in plain language. Not sure what it means? Ask Lake Pulse — we're here to help, and Plus or Lake Admin subscribers can bring deeper questions to the Boathouse.
Shoreline economics
Crayfish and frogs matter. So do the microbes nobody sees, and so does a safe place to swim in August. But the wrapper around all of it is money. Keeping a lake pristine, finding out what's really going on, and fixing a broken lake are never free — and the money follows data, not opinions.
Healthy & safe lakes are an ecological project and a finance, insurance, and real estate (F.I.R.E.) reality. Home values, insurability, tax base, and grant awards all move with the water.
There's consensus and there's pride — but protection still costs money every year, and nobody funds a problem they can't see coming.
Rumors, one bad August, a decade-old state report. Before anyone spends, somebody has to establish what's actually true, by place and by season.
Now the numbers are big: treatment, engineering, cost-share. And every dollar has to be justified up front and proven afterward.
Every lake in the country is sitting in one of those three states right now — and so is every person who cares about one. That's what all three of our users have in common: the question isn't whether the lake matters, it's who pays, how much, and how you prove it worked.
Homeowners
Your shoreline is an asset.
Health & safety first — then the second thing nobody says out loud: your property's value. If the lake is impaired, buyers and the real estate market know immediately. And if your end is pristine while the water near town isn't, that distinction has to be documented.
Associations & HOAs
Fund it, then prove it worked.
Boards have to raise money from members, chase grants, and defend a special assessment — then show whether the treatment they bought is actually working. All of that runs on a record the whole membership can see.
Public sector
The tax base is on the shoreline.
The public sector has the ability to fund lake work, and the direct interest to do it — assessed value around the lake is real revenue. What they need is high-resolution data, basic analytics, and recent activity to size the intervention, the cost, and the ROI.
They're hired to demonstrate value: that the proposed solution will work, is working, or did work. That case only holds up on measurements taken before, during, and after — at high enough resolution that nobody can wave it away.
Pristine or impaired, somebody has to pay for it.
We understand the pain
A story in the local paper about your lake's condition. A warning sign about toxic algal blooms staked next to the swimming area. A meeting that ends with everyone angrier and nothing measured. Because we lead with economics, Lake Pulse is built to be part of the way out.
Lake Pulse isn't the file of record. But the limnologists in the Boathouse can help you build the case — to neighbors, to a town board, to a grant reviewer — that the work is scoped, underway, or finished and the result holds up.
Shoreline Ledger, our Toolbox offering for shoreline economics: your monitoring history, your shoreline boundary, comparable lake spending, and public tax data — assessed values and town, county, and state revenue — turned into payback, ROI, and a rationale a budget conversation can survive.
What it comes down to
More high-resolution data, more community engagement, one shared record. That is how a lake gets funded, and it is the only way lake health & safety goals actually get met. Lake Pulse exists to make that part cheap, ordinary, and impossible to argue with.
Subscriptions
Grant eligible in many states — most boards already have a line item for this.
Free
Find and follow the lake you care about
$12/ year
Participate in your lake's monitoring efforts
$365/ year
Play a larger role in supporting your lake
$3,650/ year
Oversee your lake's health & safety strategy
Why we do this
