Plan

In 2009, the MCWD Board of Managers directed water quality department staff to create a work plan for the implementation of a carp removal and research program in 2010. Water quality staff worked closely with the scientists and researchers from University of Minnesota to propose a carp removal and research program for selected MCWD Lakes. Staff prepared a detailed criteria sheet and worked with planning department staff to recommend the first round of carp removal and research lakes for MCWD: Piersons Lake and Lake Wassermann.   

Plan

Bathymetry is the process of mapping the depths of a body of water. The data collected can be compiled into a

The largest limestone bedrock spring in the Twin Cities is Camp Cold Water Springs in Minneapolis. About 144,000 gallons of water flow through the spring each day (Jeffery, 2000). However, concerns that the Hwy 55/Hiawatha Light Rail project may have altered flow in this historic site led to the MCWD conducting weekly discharge monitoring since August 2006. The monitoring results are being used to verify that the Highway 55 project did not affect the flow of Camp Cold Water Springs.

The Minnehaha Creek Watershed District (MCWD), in partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), initiated the gauging station project in 2005. The station collects annual discharge data at the Hiawatha monitoring site upstream from the falls on Minnehaha Creek. The creek was listed as impaired by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2008 because of its chloride levels. In 2010, the MCWD and USGS partnered again to install a conductivity and temperature probes to further monitor chloride levels at the Hiawatha monitoring site.