Red Lake, Brill and Red Cedar Rivers Watershed (LC10)
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Red Lake, Brill and Red Cedar Rivers Watershed (LC10)
Red Lake (1876500)
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38.49 Acres
Natural Community
Deep Seepage
Year Last Monitored
2016
Excellent
 
Washburn
Trout Water 
No
Outstanding or Exceptional 
No
Impaired Water 
No

Fish and Aquatic Life

Current Use
Deep Seepage
Attainable Use
Default FAL
Designated Use
Default FAL

Overview

Red Lake, in the Brill and Red Cedar Rivers Watershed, is a 38.49 acre lake that falls in Washburn County. This lake is managed for fishing and swimming and is currently not considered impaired.

Date  2011

Author   Aquatic Biologist

Historical Description

Source: 1978, Surface Water Resources of Washburn County Red Lake, T37N, R10W, Section 5, 8,

A soft water, seepage lake that is part of a landlocked chain of three lakes, with Bass and Loon Lakes in the Birchwood Area. It is an elongated, single-basined lake that is among the four deepest lakes of the county. It has a fishery of mostly bluegills, perch and black crappies, but also has a few northern pike and largemouth bass. The lake water is medium brown stained with accompanying shallow light penetration. The mean depth is 22 feet but 48 percent of the lake surface has depths of over 20 feet. Littoral bottom types are mostly hard materials of gravel and some sand and boulder, with only five percent muck-bottomed off the wetlands. Several sedge meadow wetlands are scattered around the lake and a large willow swamp drains into it from the northeast. A total of 12 acres of wetlands adjoin the lake. Aquatic vegetation is typical of this type of soft water lake with white water lily, watershield and myriophyllum being the most common species. Much of the upland shore that covers 90 percent of the shoreline is wooded with mixed hardwoods and scattered pine and is also steeply sloping lakeshore. Furbearer use is not significant in numbers. A few mallards and wood ducks are raised here each year and a large number of other migratory ducks and coots use the lake in spring and fall. There is no private lakeshore development. The entire lake lies in the Washburn County Forest and all its frontage is in public ownership. Access is by an unimproved trail to the east shore of the lake.

Surface Acres-41.3, Maximum Depth-75 feet, M.P.A.-10 ppm, Secchi Disk-4 feet

Date  1978

Author   Surface Water Inventory Of Wisconsin

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Deep seepage lake describes the depth and hydrologic charactertistics of the lake. These variables affect the lakes response to watershed variables.
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Fish and Aquatic Life - Default Waters do not have a specific use designation subcategory but are considered fishable, swimmable waters.