Announcements 

The first WCLA meeting of the year will be Saturday, February 21, at the Richmond Town Hall, hosted by the Turtle Lake Protective and Improvment Association. Lizzy Reitzloff, Stream Monitoring and AIS Specialist from Rock River Coalition, will discuss stream monitoring - and how you can get involved - as well as other initiatives of the Rock River Coalition. More than half of Walworth County is in the Rock River Basin so it will be great to have more information. The business

Walworth County Lakes Association offers scholarships to help defray the costs. This is an especially good opportunity for those new to lake association or lake district leadership. Here is the procedure and application form. If you're interested, fill it out and return it. If you have questions, contact us at walworthlakes@gmail.com .

Next year's Lakes and Rivers Convention is scheduled for April 15-17, 2026, at the Stevens Point Holiday Inn Convention Center. The Convention is 3 days of meetings and fellowships, breakout sessions and plenary sessions, sandwiches and banquets. Here's the link so you can see what it's about. Walworth County used to have the greatest attendance of any county - let's bring that back! Here;s the link to Convention information: https://wisconsinwaterweek.org/home/lakes-and-rive

We're happy to post Kristina Czarnacki's presentation about marketing to your members. She shows several examples of what other lake associations have done and presents a roadmap. We're very glad she presented at our meeting and also answered so many questions!

The final meeting of 2025 was held at the LaGrange Town Hall and featured Kristina Czarnecki discussing communications and marketing. Her presentation will be posted here soon. Kristina outlined a plan that any lake association could use to communicate via email and newsletters, plus strategies for websites. In local lake news, we discussed how municipalities approve buoy permits and place them. If anyone would like to share their information, please email us at info@walworth

On Saturday, August 16 the Walworth County Lakes Association met at the Lake Ivanhoe Clubhouse to hear Travis Motl from the Wisconsin DNR...

The meeting was hosted by the Potter's Lake Protection and Rehabilitation District and held at the East Troy Community Center, 2043...

On Saturday April 19, Mary Knipper, Town Chair and founder of WCLA, spoke about the Town's multi-year dredging project to renew three...

Editor's note: This is a letter we received from Tony Novak with an important perspective about Wakesurfing Boats. Thank you Tony for...

March 13 is the 13th Annual Fox River Summit! It is an In-Person Event held at Veterans Terrace in Burlington, Wisconsin 7:30 am...

Walworth County Lakes Association held its February meeting on Zoom, on February 16th. Jake Schmidt. Vice President, introduced Michael...

The meeting began with a tribute to Mary Knipper, one of the founders of WCLA. Len Geyer gave a history of Mary's involvement - and many...

Follow this link: Quagga Mussels in Lake Geneva to read a report from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel about quagga mussels being...

At the June 15th meeting of the WCLA, Jim Corcoran of Lauderdale Lakes Improvement Association, demonstrated a new desigh of fish cribs,...

Members and friends of Walworth County Lakes met at the Lions Clubhouse on Whitewater Lake for an informative presentation by Jane...

Mary Knipper, co-founder of Walworth County Lakes Association, presented Peter Baker from the Lake Ivanhoe Property Owners Association...

WCLA had its first meeting on February 17th and plans have been made for the rest of 2024. You will see them on the Events page and...

The program was held at the Delavan Club clubhouse. Dr. Chris Wells, Associate Professor of Parks and Recreation Leadership, Aurora...

There are many "hot topics" about lake safety and regulation. There is speculation and we're all talking about various things, including...

On Saturday, October 21, the WCLA gathered for its last meeting of the year at the Lake Ivanhoe Clubhouse. Lake Ivanhoe has been...