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POLK COUNTY LWRD: Apple River Flowage Water Quality & Biological Assessment

Polk County is sponsoring a project to assess watershed, water quality, plankton, algae, and shoreline conditions; determine nutrient loads, budget, and model lake response; distribute and analyze a sociological survey; educate public through pontoon classroom and shoreline restoration workshop; develop a lake management plan including public participation/meetings.

Specific project tasks include: 1. Expanded bimonthly water quality monitoring including spring and fall overturn; 2. Lake sediment sampling; 3. Tributary water quality and flow monitoring; 4. Daily lake level and precipitation monitoring; 5. Plankton and algae assessment; 6. Shoreline assessment and restoration workshop; 7. Watershed delineation and modeling; 8. Sociological survey; 9. Pontoon classroom; 10. Lake management plan development including public participation/meeting.

Final deliverables include examples of education materials developed; agenda or attendance lists for workshops, planning meetings, and education events; and a single lake management plan that includes methodologies, results, and management alternatives discussion with an implementation plan that is approvable for Lake Protection Grant eligibility.

Special conditions: 1. CLMN efforts shall not be duplicated, and these data shall included in the trends analysis and final reporting; 2. Draft sociological/user surveys must be reviewed and approved by the Department before being initiated; 3. Shoreline inventory methods must be approved by the Department before being initiated.

This scope summarizes the project detail provided in the application and does not negate tasks/deliverables described therein. Data, records, and reports, including GIS-based maps, and digital images, must be submitted to the Department in a format specified by the regional Lake Coordinator.

Project Type LAKE_GRANT - Large Scale Lake Planning
Project ID LPL-1474-12
Year Started 2012
Status COMPLETE

Activities

  • Monitor Water Level
  • Informational Meetings
  • Shoreland Monitoring, Assessment, Inventory
  • Aquatic Plant Monitoring or Survey
  • Lake Management Plan Development
  • Social Survey of Residents or Users
  • Watershed Mapping or Assessment
  • Lakes Planning Grant
  • Monitor Water Quality or Sediment
  • Hold Workshops

Final Report and Products


People/Organizations Involved

  • Katelin Anderson