LONG LAKE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: Evaluating Indicators of Change

The Long Lake Preservation Association, Inc. will conduct a comprehensive lake and watershed monitoring project involving Long Lake and it's watershed Lake in Washburn County. Primary activities for this project include; tributary monitoring to evaluate base flow and storm event stream water quality conditions and nutrient loading to Long Lake, monitoring the hypolimnetic oxygen depletion rates at several locations within Long Lake throughout the growing season, development of a flexible monitoring strategy dependent on new needs as discovered during the current grants projects identification process, and analyzing and evaluating all historic and current water quality data and developing a final project summary report.