Status and Trend Monitoring Summary for Selected Lakes in Todd County, Minnesota 2002 (Lakes: Mound, Mary, Moose, Long, Lady and Fairy)

In 2001, the MPCA monitored the following six lakes in Todd County: Mound, Mary, Moose, Long, Lady and Fairy. Water quality samples were collected monthly from June through September at most lakes. Five of the lakes (with the exception of Fairy) were included as a part of our ecoregion reference lakes for the North Central Hardwood Forests (NCHF) ecoregion. Most of these lakes were sampled between 1985 – 1987. Sampling in 2001 was done to update the database for these lakes and to determine if there have been any significant changes in water quality over the past 15 years. Fairy Lake was included based on multiple requests for an assessment of this lake, as no previous data was available for it.