Customer Story · Aquatic Vegetation Management · 2026
Healthier lakes, leaner operations.
How a Minnesota aquatic-treatment operation pulled scheduling, site data, chemical compliance, and invoicing into one field-ready system — and reclaimed a full-time role's worth of capacity.
10+ hrs
Saved by automating route planning & dispatch every week
~$60K/yr
A full-time hire's workload reclaimed — without adding headcount
Same-day
Invoicing — from days-later to before the crew leaves the site
100%
Digital chemical compliance logs — zero paper
"Before OpsVaraTM, we were juggling scheduling across multiple systems and tools to manage lake and pond jobs across multiple states — spreadsheets, phone calls, it never all lived in one place. Now our crew walks out of the office every morning with everything they need loaded and ready: the schedule, the lake and pond details, the chemical logs. Nothing falls through the cracks."
Kevin Eckstam
Owner · Midwest Aqua Care · Minnesota
The Impact of Proven Aquatic Weed Treatment Software
The challenge
Lake and pond jobs spread across multiple states lived in spreadsheets, phone calls, and disconnected tools — never in one place.
The solution
With OpsVara, Midwest Aqua Care runs scheduling, permits, routing, compliance, and invoicing in one place — and gives customers a portal to handle requests and payments themselves.
The result
Dispatch in minutes, same-day invoices, and automatic compliance logs — a full-time role's worth of capacity, reclaimed.
Client snapshot
- Industry
- Aquatic weed & algae management
- Services
- Lake & pond, fountains
- Headquarters
- Jordan, Minnesota
- Coverage
- Multiple states
- Owner
- Kevin Eckstam
Customer portal
- Pay invoices online
- Request new services
- Review past work
"Our customers pay invoices, request service, and look back at past work themselves now — fewer phone calls for us, faster answers for them."
Kevin Eckstam
Compliance
"Every treatment is logged the moment it happens — product, water body, date. When the state wants our records, it’s there, audit-ready."
Kevin Eckstam | Owner
Time & cost
"OpsVara handed us back the equivalent of a full-time office hire. Work that swallowed a whole week now runs in the background."
Kevin Eckstam | Owner
Growth
"We’re treating more water bodies than ever without adding a single person to the office. The system scales with us instead of slowing us down."
Kevin Eckstam | Owner
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