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Fish and Aquatic Life
Overview
Twin Lakes, in the Upper South Fork Flambeau River Watershed, is a 16.02 acre lake that falls in Price County. This lake is managed for fishing and swimming and is currently not considered impaired.
Date 2011
Author Aquatic Biologist
Historical Description
Source: 1983, Surface Water Resources of Price County,WI: WI-DNR
Twin Lakes - T40N, R3E, Sec. 11.
Surface area = 19.4 acres, maximum depth = 16 ft, MPA = 26 ppm,
Secchi disk = 10 ft.
A soft water, seepage lake, Twin Lakes has an intermittent
outlet flow to Springstead Creek. The lake was chemically treated
in 1964 and planted with largemouth bass, warmouth and rainbow
trout. Later surveys indicated poor survival of the largemouth
bass and the presence of pumpkinseeds, crappies, perch and mud
minnows, indicating that the 1964 treatment was incomplete.
Today, the lake has perch, bluegills, pumpkinseeds, warmouth,
black bullheads, white suckers, mud minnows and rainbow trout
(which are planted annually).
The lake shoreline is 90% upland hardwood and pine with three
small leather leaf bogs. The bottom consists of muck sand, gravel
and rubble. Aquatic vegetation is found throughout most of the
lake. Wildlife value is limited to a few nesting ducks.
There is no private development, as the Chequamegon National
Forest owns the entire shoreline and provides a campground with a
public boat landing on the lake's southeast side.
Date 1983
Author Surface Water Inventory Of Wisconsin
Condition
Wisconsin has over 84,000 miles of streams, 15,000 lakes and milllions of acres of wetlands. Assessing the condition of this vast amount of water is challenging. The state's water monitoring program uses a media-based, cross-program approach to analyze water condition. An updated monitoring strategy (2015-2020) is now available. Compliance with Clean Water Act fishable, swimmable standards are located in the Executive Summary of Water Condition in 2018. See also the 'monitoring and projects' tab.
Reports
Management Goals
Wisconsin's Water Quality Standards provide qualitative and quantitative goals for waters that are protective of Fishable, Swimmable conditions [Learn more]. Waters that do not meet water quality standards are considered impaired and restoration actions are planned and carried out until the water is once again fishable and swimmable
Management goals can include creation or implementation of a Total Maximum Daily Load analysis, a Nine Key Element Plan, or other restoration work, education and outreach and more. If specific recommendations exist for this water, they will be displayed below online.
Monitoring
Monitoring the condition of a river, stream, or lake includes gathering physical, chemical, biological, and habitat data. Comprehensive studies often gather all these parameters in great detail, while lighter assessment events will involve sampling physical, chemical and biological data such as macroinvertebrates. Aquatic macroinvertebrates and fish communities integrate watershed or catchment condition, providing great insight into overall ecosystem health. Chemical and habitat parameters tell researchers more about human induced problems including contaminated runoff, point source dischargers, or habitat issues that foster or limit the potential of aquatic communities to thrive in a given area. Wisconsin's Water Monitoring Strategy was recenty updated.
Grants and Management Projects
Monitoring Projects
| WBIC | Official Waterbody Name | Station ID | Station Name | Earliest Fieldwork Date | Latest Fieldwork Date | View Station | View Data |
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| 2264200 | Twin Lakes | 10020312 | Twin Lake -- Boat Launch | 6/16/2008 | 6/16/2008 | Map | Data |
| 2264200 | Twin Lakes | 10005242 | Twin Lakes | 8/29/2000 | 9/21/2017 | Map | Data |
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Watershed Characteristics
Twin Lakes is located in the Upper South Fork Flambeau River watershed which is 278.98 mi². Land use in the watershed is primarily forest (54.80%), wetland (38.80%) and a mix of open (4.60%) and other uses (1.70%). This watershed has 254.56 stream miles, 8,509.29 lake acres and 63,099.27 wetland acres.
Nonpoint Source Characteristics
This watershed is ranked Not Ranked for runoff impacts on streams, Low for runoff impacts on lakes and Low for runoff impacts on groundwater and therefore has an overall rank of Low. This value can be used in ranking the watershed or individual waterbodies for grant funding under state and county programs.However, all waters are affected by diffuse pollutant sources regardless of initial water quality. Applications for specific runoff projects under state or county grant programs may be pursued. For more information, go to surface water program grants.