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Soil and Water specialist says county lakes ‘trending toward better water quality’ since 2012
Summary
Chisago Soil & Water Conservation District Water Resource Specialist Casey Thiel told the Chisago Lakes LID board that 2024 monitoring shows overall improvement across county lakes since 2012, which should mean fewer and less-toxic algae blooms; the board heard this at its March 2 meeting.
Casey Thiel, Water Resource Specialist with the Chisago Soil & Water Conservation District, presented the district’s 2024 Water Quality Report at the March 2 Chisago Lakes Lake Improvement District meeting. Thiel said the countywide data show an overall trend toward improved water quality since monitoring began in 2012.
"Overall, the lakes are trending toward better water quality since monitoring began in 2012," Thiel said, adding that these changes should translate to "less frequent, less intense, less toxic algae blooms." The report covers multiple lakes in the LID and was presented during the meeting’s New Business segment.
The report’s findings were presented as part of routine monitoring and inform the LID’s ongoing management choices, including outreach, education and potential treatment actions. Board members did not take immediate policy action on the report but heard subsequent staff and engineering updates on related management activities, including a possible carp harvest and modeling for a channel project.
The board’s acceptance of the report followed routine agenda and consent votes that took place at the start of the meeting.
