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This website shows real-time data from monitoring programs in Lake Champlain and throughout the Lake Champlain Basin.

Please choose a data type above. All data plots are interactive.

This website is in development. All data is provisional and for educational purposes only.

Last updated 2024-11-20 17:30:40

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Lake Champlain level, lake temperature, and tributary discharge data is collected by the US Geological Survey.

The Lamoille River and Malletts Bay buoys are part of a pilot study to upgrade and modernize the Lake Champlain Long-term Monitoring Program. They are instrumented with an array of water quality and weather sensors that measure several parameters every 15 minutes. These buoys are supported by the Lake Champlain Basin Program, in partnership with New York and Vermont Departments of Environmental Conservation and SUNY Plattsburgh.

The Valcour buoy is supported by the Lake Champlain Basin Program. Previous funding was provided by Lake Champlain Sea Grant.

The Missisquoi and St. Albans bay buoys are supported by the Lake Champlain Basin Program and are maintained in partnership with the University of Vermont.

Satellite imagery is captured by the NASA MODIS program, and images are retrieved from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center.

This website was developed by Dr. Matthew Vaughan, Chief Scientist at the Lake Champlain Basin Program.

This site is in development. All data is provisional and for educational purposes only. Reviewed and approved data will be available for download at the conclusion of each field season.

Weather

Weather tabs

Malletts Bay

The Malletts Bay water and weather monitoring buoy is out for the season and will be re-deployed in Spring 2025.

Colchester reef

Valcour

The Valcour water and weather monitoring buoy is out for the season and will be re-deployed in Spring 2025.

Lake level

Water temperature

Temp tabs

USGS stations

Malletts Bay

The Malletts Bay water and weather monitoring buoy is out for the season and will be re-deployed in Spring 2025.

Valcour

The Valcour water and weather monitoring buoy is out for the season and will be re-deployed in Spring 2025.

Water quality

Plots

Lamoille River

The Lamoille River water quality monitoring buoy is out for the season and will be re-deployed in Spring 2025.

Malletts Bay

The Malletts Bay water and weather monitoring buoy is out for the season and will be re-deployed in Spring 2025.

Missisquoi Bay

The Missisquoi Bay water quality monitoring buoy is out for the season and will be re-deployed in Spring 2025.

St. Albans Bay

The St. Albans Bay water quality monitoring buoy is out for the season and will be re-deployed in Spring 2025.

Upper Saranac Lake

Data from the Upper Saranac Lake Environmental Monitoring Platform can be found at this website, hosted by the Paul Smith’s College Adirondack Watershed Institute.

Lake Carmi

Data from the Lake Carmi water quality monitoring platform can be found at this website, hosted by the University of Vermont and Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation.

Tributary flow

Flow tabs

Tributary discharge

Total discharge

Map of gauging stations

Imagery

Note that satellite images may be obscured by cloud cover or processing errors.

Images

Yesterday (2024-11-19)

MODIS data is currently unavailable. NASA is working to resolve the issue. Showing image from 2024-03-08

Past week (2024-11-12 through 2024-11-19)

MODIS data is currently unavailable. NASA is working to resolve the issue. Showing images from the week prior to 2024-03-08.