Lake Assessment Program - Bass Lake, Itasca County

Bass Lake one of four lakes sampled in Itasca County during the summer of 2003 by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) as part of our Lake Assessment Program (LAP). Bass Lake 31-0576 located 5 miles Northwest of Grand Rapids will be addressed in this report. The other three lakes studied in Itasca County in 2003 were Deer 31-0334, Pickerel 31-0339 and Battle 31-0176 which were addressed in a separate report. The LAP is designed to assist lake associations or municipalities in the collection and analysis of baseline water quality data in order to assess the trophic status of their lakes. The general work plan for LAP includes Association participation in the Citizen Lake-Monitoring Program (CLMP), cooperative examination of land use and drainage patterns in the watershed of the lake, and an assessment of the data collected by MPCA staff. This report presents an assessment of this data along with water quality data from 2003 and from any previous studies of the lakes.