PlantCheck
Turnaround: Kits ship after checkout. Photo identifications are returned within 5 business days of receiving your email. eDNA results post as the lab completes its analysis.
$1,000
Bundles
RunoffCheck
Find out what's washing in.
$2,200
Checkout arrives with the store connection. Orders attach to the lake on your account.
Overview
RunoffCheck measures what arrives with runoff: road salt, nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and lawn and farm chemicals. It compares an inflow against open water, and sets both against satellite-derived history of how storms and drought have affected your lake. Click, pay, and the kits ship. No call required.
What you get & how it's made
7 components
- Value type
- Not published
| Component | Learn more |
|---|---|
| Chloride & road salt test: 2 kits, inflow and open water | Click here to learn more |
| Nitrogen sequence test: 2 kits, inflow and open water | Click here to learn more |
| Total phosphorus test: 2 kits, inflow and open water | Click here to learn more |
| TSS test: 2 kits, inflow and open water | Click here to learn more |
| Herbicides test (14 compounds, including 2,4-D and dicamba): 1 kit, at the inflow | Click here to learn more |
| Pesticide Detection test (9 compounds, including atrazine): 1 kit, at the inflow | Click here to learn more |
| Satellite-derived climate & extreme weather history | Click here to learn more |
You get
- Chloride & road salt test: 2 kits, inflow and open water
- Nitrogen sequence test: 2 kits, inflow and open water
- Total phosphorus test: 2 kits, inflow and open water
- TSS test: 2 kits, inflow and open water
- Herbicides test (14 compounds, including 2,4-D and dicamba): 1 kit, at the inflow
- Pesticide Detection test (9 compounds, including atrazine): 1 kit, at the inflow
- Satellite-derived climate & extreme weather history
Product category
- CombinationKit with multiple items
- Availability
- Shipping
Flat-rate to your front door. Shipping details
- SKU
LP-BH-BUNDLE-008
Turnaround
Kits ship after checkout. The climate history posts within 15 business days. Lab results post as each lab completes its analysis.
What problem does this solve for our lake?
- What is washing into this lake, and from where?
- Most of what changes a lake arrives from its watershed: salt from roads, nutrients from lawns and fields, sediment from construction, pesticides from turf and crops. The inflow is where it shows up first.
- RunoffCheck samples an inflow and open water with the same tests, so you can see what the inflow is carrying and how much of it reaches the lake.
What's included
Chloride & Road Salt Test2 kits, inflow and open water
Chloride does not break down and does not leave.
Measures: Chloride, Specific conductance
Nitrogen sequence test2 kits, inflow and open water
Laboratory analysis at an independent accredited partner lab; see the component product for parameters, MDL/RL, and methods
Total Phosphorus Test2 kits, inflow and open water
The single most predictive number in lake management, for $52.
Measures: Total Phosphorus
TSS test2 kits, inflow and open water
Laboratory analysis at an independent accredited partner lab; see the component product for parameters, MDL/RL, and methods
Herbicides test (14 compounds, including 2,4-D and dicamba)1 kit, at the inflow
Laboratory analysis at an independent accredited partner lab; see the component product for parameters, MDL/RL, and methods
Pesticide Detection Test1 kit, at the inflow
Nine legacy and high-priority contaminants, including atrazine — the compounds the broad panel does not cover.
Measures: Atrazine, Simazine, Alachlor, Methoxychlor, Hexachlorobenzene, Hexachlorocyclopentadiene
How your lake has responded to heatwaves, storms and drought, from the satellite archive.
Maps: Bloom, clarity, and sediment indices
- Prepaid return shipping and cold packs for every lab kit
- All results load to your lake portal
See each product for methods, detection limits, and turnaround.
What's not included
- Metals, hydrocarbons, and PFAS. See the Lab Testing aisle.
- Current-use insecticides and fungicides
- Flow measurement at the inflow
- Sample collection. You collect with the kits provided. Boathouse field collection is available separately.
- A call with the Boathouse. Add a 30-minute call (0.5 credit) at checkout for $75.
- Treatment, removal, or applicator services, or advice on which treatment to use. The Boathouse helps you collect and interpret data; it does not recommend treatments.
Requirements
- A Lake Pulse account at any tier. On Plus and Lake Admin, results load to your lake's portal; on Member and Basic, they are emailed to you.
- Access to an inflow (stream, ditch, or culvert) and an open-water location
- Shipping samples the same day you collect them
- Satellite components need a lake of about 25 acres or more.
- Questions before you order? Contact the Boathouse.
What you get back
Results
- Chloride, three forms of nitrogen, total phosphorus, and TSS at the inflow and in open water
- Herbicide and pesticide panels at the inflow: 14 lawn and crop herbicides, plus 9 pesticides and related compounds, including atrazine
- A satellite-derived record of how storms, heatwaves, and drought have affected the lake
- Everything loads to your lake portal on Plus and Lake Admin, or arrives by email on Member and Basic
Pro tips
- Sample the inflow within 24 to 48 hours of a heavy rain. That is when runoff is moving.
- For road salt, sample during spring snowmelt.
- Collect the open-water sample the same day as the inflow sample.
- Record the weather for the 3 days before you sample.
Results load to your lake's portal on Plus and Lake Admin; on Member and Basic, they are emailed to you.
Compare subscriptionsAbout these results
Every result shows the date and time the sample was collected. Results reflect one sample, collected at a specific place and depth, and analyzed by an independent accredited laboratory using the method listed on this page. Lake conditions change across a lake and over time, sometimes within hours, in ways a single sample may not capture. Every method has detection and reporting limits; where the laboratory provides them, they are reported with your results. A detection is not a diagnosis, and a non-detection does not prove absence. Results are not a regulatory or compliance determination unless the agency involved accepts them as one. Results can help you make decisions about safe swimming and water use, but no result is definitive for every place and time. It is always good practice to check posted signs and your state or local health authorities. Recommendations are options to consider; decisions, and responsibility for any action taken, rest with you.
Every image shows the date it was captured. Satellite products are derived from reflected light recorded as a satellite passes over your lake. Values are relative indices, not laboratory concentrations, and cannot identify an organism, a toxin, or a pollutant. Cloud, haze, sun glint, shallow water, and shoreline effects can distort or hide the signal, and small lakes, narrow arms, and coves may fall below the image resolution. Conditions can change within hours of a pass. The absence of a detected bloom does not mean the water is safe.
Lake Pulse reports measurements. It does not score, rate, rank or forecast lakes or properties. See something wrong? Request a correction →
Questions on this?
Our team can help you choose the right solution for your lake, explain how results sync to your Portal, or point you to the right subscription.
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