Pamela Park's New Wetland Ponds:
Landscaped Beauty Combines with Settling Action To Clean Up Algae-Producing Phosphorous.

Called wetland ponds, settling ponds, or storm water detention ponds, these products of environmental engineering work by capturing contaminated runoff before it enters a larger water body. This allows phosphorous, (the main culprit in algae blooms and degraded water quality,) to settle at a pond's bottom, becoming food for wetland plants.

Pamela Park's new ponds are a major component of the comprehensive plan developed by the partnership of the City of Edina, residents of the Pamela Lake Association and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD) to address water quality and wildlife habitat concerns for Pamela Lake Park.