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Santorini 
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Posted on: May 14 2011,10:20 pm |
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(grassman @ May 14 2011,5:54 pm)
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(Rosalind_Swenson @ May 14 2011,10:45 am)
QUOTE Too much phosphorous has accumulated in the lake and that's the reason it needs to be dredged? Has anything been done to find out how it got there in the first place? Will something be done to ensure it doesn't happen again? Maybe go look at the yards on the west end of Edgewater bay. Just sayin. 
I think you are partly right grassman, especially since phosphorous is found in fertilizers as well as animal waste (manure). Plus all the sidewalks and roads around the lake, sources where the lake receives run-off; septic sytems? Has to be more of a non-point source since there is really no industry around that lake.
Some phosphorous just natually occurs in sediment but with the lake being so green ya can see its loaded!
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Wolfie
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Posted on: May 15 2011,1:05 am |
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Makes one wonder how much fertilizer can be traced back to the large factory farmland west of town that drains into the watershed that works its way into fountain lake.
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Tony Montana59
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Posted on: May 15 2011,1:44 am |
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Unbelievable $8 million dollars to clean up the lake for the property owners who surround Fountain Lake. We have more important issues in our City to spend our tax dollars on. Give me a break.
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grassman
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Posted on: May 17 2011,7:53 pm |
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First lake? Have you been out of Albert Lea? 
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MADDOG
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Posted on: May 18 2011,5:31 am |
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Some of you are dreaming. You want to have pristine lakes where you can play and boat and swim. You want beautiful shores and yards to line the lakes where fishing and recreation give you pleasure, yet complain when the watershed research and attempt to solve the problems that you and nature continue to create.
People nearly every year beetch about a green Fountain Lake, yet demand to continue to keep harming it. The DNR stocks Albert Lake Lake and works with the watershed towards improvements that would cost people little money, yet the county and landowners devise plans to scuttle attempts by the DNR and SRRWD to help the lake. They do great things to Pickeral Lake and people complain about aquatic vegetation starting to inhabit the shorelines and lake.
These lakes for the most part were natural potholes and shallow swamps flooded out by spring thaws every year as was much of town. The dams on Bridge Street and at the Shellrock are what turned these eutrophic lakes into what they are. Eutrophic lakes are perhaps the most vulnerable lakes to the problems we have. Problems created by nature and, yes, man.
I'd be willing to bet that if you were to go to the outlets of Pickeral or, say Bancroft Creek which feed Fountain, you would find that the water quality is near what it is coming out of your tap. Why? Because of what the watershed has done with the agricultural community and landowners in the upper portion of the watershed.
You want a beautiful Fountain Lake? How about if the watershed was able to have motorized boats banned on Fountain Lake? What if the shorelines were required to be seeded and then allowed to naturally be repopulated with shoreline grasses such as cattails and rushes? No more mowed boulevards?
These lakes are eutrophic lakes. Without dredging, you will never have the "beautiful lakes" you're dreaming of. They need to remove much of what has settled to the bottom of Fountain Lake. They need to do much more to protect it after they have dredged. But the people of this town will never let that happen. They will demand that they have the recreation they desire. They will have to put their boats back into the water to stir up the bottom. To destroy the clarity that has been created after dredging. But you can't have it both ways.
You don't realize that one of the major contributors to the pollution is geese. Yeah, geese and don't forget about those big white beautiful birds nearly everyone enjoys seeing soaring over the lakes.
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grassman
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Posted on: May 18 2011,6:01 am |
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Well said MD.
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nedkelly
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Posted on: May 18 2011,6:41 am |
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(MADDOG @ May 18 2011,5:31 am)
QUOTE Some of you are dreaming. You want to have pristine lakes where you can play and boat and swim. You want beautiful shores and yards to line the lakes where fishing and recreation give you pleasure, yet complain when the watershed research and attempt to solve the problems that you and nature continue to create.
People nearly every year beetch about a green Fountain Lake, yet demand to continue to keep harming it. The DNR stocks Albert Lake Lake and works with the watershed towards improvements that would cost people little money, yet the county and landowners devise plans to scuttle attempts by the DNR and SRRWD to help the lake. They do great things to Pickeral Lake and people complain about aquatic vegetation starting to inhabit the shorelines and lake.
These lakes for the most part were natural potholes and shallow swamps flooded out by spring thaws every year as was much of town. The dams on Bridge Street and at the Shellrock are what turned these eutrophic lakes into what they are. Eutrophic lakes are perhaps the most vulnerable lakes to the problems we have. Problems created by nature and, yes, man.
I'd be willing to bet that if you were to go to the outlets of Pickeral or, say Bancroft Creek which feed Fountain, you would find that the water quality is near what it is coming out of your tap. Why? Because of what the watershed has done with the agricultural community and landowners in the upper portion of the watershed.
You want a beautiful Fountain Lake? How about if the watershed was able to have motorized boats banned on Fountain Lake? What if the shorelines were required to be seeded and then allowed to naturally be repopulated with shoreline grasses such as cattails and rushes? No more mowed boulevards?
These lakes are eutrophic lakes. Without dredging, you will never have the "beautiful lakes" you're dreaming of. They need to remove much of what has settled to the bottom of Fountain Lake. They need to do much more to protect it after they have dredged. But the people of this town will never let that happen. They will demand that they have the recreation they desire. They will have to put their boats back into the water to stir up the bottom. To destroy the clarity that has been created after dredging. But you can't have it both ways.
You don't realize that one of the major contributors to the pollution is geese. Yeah, geese and don't forget about those big white beautiful birds nearly everyone enjoys seeing soaring over the lakes.
  The truth has arrived...Good on ya MD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...ned
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Madd Max
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Posted on: May 18 2011,9:58 am |
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The Shellrock River Watershed District has been very active in working on cleaning up our lakes. People throughout the state and nation are in awe at how much they have accomplished in the short amount of time they have been in existence.
Look at the water clarity of our lakes. Can anyone ever remember seeing the water clarity in Pickerel Lake so clear? How about the Edgewater parks dump site and the mark improvement it made to Fountain Lake after it was cleaned up. Then there are the holding ponds that were put in between Hwy 65 and South Shore drive that stopped the flooding problems that often happened out there. Look at the clarity of the water in Albert Lea Lake. These are just a few examples of what the Shellrock River Watershed District has been doing.
How many of you go fishing on our lakes? How many of you walk around the lake? Have any of you ever been camping out on Big Island? How many of you take your boats out on the lakes? Were any of you out duck hunting on Pickerel Lake last fall? The lakes are for everyone to enjoy that chooses to use them not just the property owners.
Debate is good and everyone has a right to their opinion. But the cleanup of our lakes will have a lasting effect on the quality of life here for generations to come.
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