SIGURD OLSON ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE: Comprehensive Management Planning for Caroline Lake

Purpose

Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute is sponsoring a comprehensive lake monitoring and management planning project on Caroline Lake. Activities include: aquatic plant, shoreland, water quality and quantity, and tributary loading monitoring; watershed mapping and modeling; sociological surveying; and planning with local stakeholders. The project includes regular public participation/engagement and education and outreach. All data collected, including lab results, must be entered into SWIMS. The final deliverable will be a comprehensive lake management plan. Water quality samples collected as part of this project will have analysis completed by the Applied Research and Environmental Laboratory at Northland College. The Department releases the project sponsor from condition #6 under Project Actities of the standard grant contract. The specific objectives, metrics, and deliverables for the listed activities are included in the application and supporting materials, and this scope is not intended to replace or supersede those documents.

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Large Scale Lake Planning
LPL-1557-15
2015
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Grant Awarded
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute is sponsoring a comprehensive lake monitoring and management planning project on Caroline Lake. Activities include: aquatic plant, shoreland, water quality and quantity, and tributary loading monitoring; watershed mapping and modeling; sociological surveying; and planning with local stakeholders. The project includes regular public participation/engagement and education and outreach. All data collected, including lab results, must be entered into SWIMS. The final deliverable will be a comprehensive lake management plan.
Shoreland Monitoring, Assessment, Inventory
Shoreland Monitoring, Assessment or Inventory
 
Watershed
 
Waters