Lake Assessment Program - Wabana Chain of Lakes, Itasca County

During the summer of 2000 the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) monitored four lakes in Itasca County as a part of our lake and trend monitoring efforts. This monitoring effort is intended to supplement and complement data gathered through the Citizen Lake-Monitoring Program (CLMP), Lake Assessment Program (LAP), and Clean Water Partnership (CWP) Program. The intent of this lake sampling effort is to: provide baseline water quality data, provide data for potential LAP and CWP lakes, characterize lake condition in different regions of the state, examine year-to-year variability in ecoregion-reference lakes, and provide additional trophic status data for lakes exhibiting trends in Secchi transparency. In the latter case, we attempt to determine if the trends in Secchi transparency are real