PlantCheck
Know what's growing before it spreads.
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.
$1,100
Bundles
WakeCheck
Replace the argument with data.
$1,300
Checkout arrives with the store connection. Orders attach to the lake on your account.
Overview
WakeCheck gives a lake debating wake sports something to measure instead of argue about. Suspended sediment and phosphorus before and after a busy weekend, a logged count of boat passes, and ten years of satellite-derived sediment history. Click, pay, and the kits ship. No call required.
What you get & how it's made
5 components
| Component | Learn more |
|---|---|
| TSS test: 4 kits, before and after a busy weekend | Click here to learn more |
| Total phosphorus test: 2 kits, before and after | Click here to learn more |
| Lake Tag with year-one Naughtweed app subscription | Click here to learn more |
| Secchi disk | Click here to learn more |
| Satellite-derived sediment history: 10 years | Click here to learn more |
You get
- TSS test: 4 kits, before and after a busy weekend
- Total phosphorus test: 2 kits, before and after
- Lake Tag with year-one Naughtweed app subscription
- Secchi disk
- Satellite-derived sediment history: 10 years
Product category
- CombinationKit with multiple items
- ServiceBy the Lake Pulse Boathouse
- Availability
- Shipping
Flat-rate to your front door. Shipping details
- SKU
LP-BH-BUNDLE-001
Turnaround
Kits ship after checkout. The sediment history posts within 15 business days. Lab results post as the lab completes its analysis.
What problem does this solve for our lake?
- Is heavy recreation stirring up sediment and nutrients in this lake?
- Few lake disputes generate more heat and less evidence. Wake sports can increase shoreline erosion and stir up sediment, and resuspended sediment can release phosphorus that feeds algae. They are also a legitimate use and a real part of local value.
- WakeCheck starts the measured version of that conversation: lab measurements before and after a busy weekend, a record of how much traffic caused them, and a decade of sediment history to set them against.
What's included
Total Suspended Solids (TSS)4 kits, before and after a busy weekend
How much material is suspended in your water, measured by weight.
Measures: Total Suspended Solids (TSS)
Total Phosphorus Test2 kits, before and after
The single most predictive number in lake management, for $52.
Measures: Total Phosphorus
One click logs a timestamped, geotagged observation to your lake's portal.
Measures: Observations by press type
The oldest measurement in limnology, and still one of the most useful.
Measures: Water clarity (Secchi depth)
Historical Survey - Sediment Disruption10 years
Where sediment has been disturbed on your lake, and how that has changed.
Maps: Turbidity/sediment index
- 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
- Lake Tag app renewal after year one ($50 per year per account)
- Shoreline erosion mapping. See the Drones aisle.
- Depth mapping (bathymetry)
- A ruling on recreation policy. WakeCheck provides measurements. Decisions belong to your community.
- Sample collection. You collect with the kits provided. Boathouse field collection is available separately.
- A call with the Boathouse. Add a 30-minute call at checkout for $50.
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 the area in question and a control area, from a dock, shoreline, or boat
- Satellite components need a lake of about 25 acres or more.
- Questions before you order? Contact the Boathouse.
What you get back
Results
- Before-and-after suspended sediment and phosphorus
- A time-stamped log of wake-boat passes
- Before-and-after Secchi readings
- Ten years of satellite-derived sediment history
- Everything loads to your lake portal on Plus and Lake Admin, or arrives by email on Member and Basic
Pro tips
- Agree the method before you collect, with both sides in the room. Data gathered by one faction convinces nobody.
- Put one spot in each pair in a control area nobody disputes.
- Press the Lake Tag for every pass. Traffic is the variable everyone argues about and nobody records.
- Depth is the crux. Wake effects on sediment depend heavily on how shallow the water is.
- Expect a nuanced answer. "Measurable in the north bay, not elsewhere" is the usual finding.
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 reading and observation shows the date it was collected. Field values are made by you or your members, at the place and time recorded, and depend on the instrument, the observer, light, weather, and technique. They are not laboratory analyses. Observations, such as Lake Tag presses or microscope sightings, are reports, not verified identifications. Lake Pulse records what is submitted; it does not independently verify each entry.
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.
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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