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The Lake Beulah Management District will hire a contractor to update portions of the current lake management plan and to refine a previously completed water budget for the lake. This grant is directly linked to a small scale planning grant (SPL-195-09). The project deliverable will be a report containing the following elements: 1) Results of quantitative aquatic plant survey 2) Results of qualitative wetland plant survey 3) An aquatic plant management plan 4) Utilization of nutrient data from SPL-195-09 to estimate nutrient loading to Beulah Lake. 5) Summary of results of data currently being collected by the District - stream flow data, groundwater level at 7 sets of well nests, lakebed temperature monitoring, and private well sampling. 6) Results of the development of a new groundwater flow model and updated water budget calculation.