Lake Assessment Program - Mazaska Lake, Rice County

Mazaska Lake waa sampled during the summer of 1992 8as part of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's (MPCA) Lake Assessment program. Data collected during the study showed that in terms of total phosphorus, chlorophyll and Secchi disk transparency, the water quality of Mazaska Lake is about the average of similar lakes in the North Central Hardwood Forest ecoregion of Minnesota. The mean summer concentrations of total phosphorus and chlorophyll were 55 and 25 ug/l, respectively, and the mean Secchi disk transparency was 5.8 feet. Based on these water quality values Mazaska Lake would be considered eutrophic.