The Kosciusko Lakes and Streams Endowment Fund was recently created at the Kosciusko County Community Foundation. The endowment fund will provide KLAS with a stream of annual income to help them in their efforts to collect and analyze local lakes and streams data, provide water education, improve and protect local waters, and train college students …read more.

Kosciusko Lakes and Streams hosted its bi-annual field day at Pike Lake on Thursday. Nearly 400 fourth-grade students, including students from Syracuse Elementary School and North Webster Elementary School got out of class for a day to learn about water quality and how to care for their area lakes. Students spent half an hour at …read more.

Ever have trouble finding which Kosciusko County beaches are closed due to high E. coli levels or wonder when they reopen? A new beach alert system will allow people to get this information immediately via website, email or text message. Kosciusko Lakes and Streams (KLAS), the Kosciusko County Health Department and K21 Health Foundation are …read more.

The K21 Health Foundation has awarded Kosciusko Lakes and Streams $200,000 to be used toward lake and stream research in Kosciusko County, focusing on blue-green algae. “Lakes and streams are vital to the community. We want to acknowledge how important water is to the health of residents in Kosciusko County. We’re thrilled to renew our …read more.