Lakes Monitoring

All lakes except Curtis and Palmer are monitored through the Metropolitan Council’s Citizen Assisted Monitoring Program (CAMP).  (Twin Lake is comprised of three basins and is considered as three separate lakes for monitoring purposes even though it is one chain of lakes.)  Monitoring has shown the lakes in the Shingle Creek watershed to be typical of urban lakes.  For most lakes there is not enough data to identify clear trends.  Many factors may influence a single year’s results, including weather, unusual activity such as construction in the watershed, or number of samples taken during the season.

The 2005 Water Quality Monitoring Report provides more detail on the Commissions’ lake monitoring activities.