Star Lake Meeker County2010 CLMP+ Data Summary

Star Lake is located in Meeker County, 5.7 miles southwest of Litchfield. The lake has a maximum depth of 4.6 meters (15 feet) and a mean depth of 2.7 meters (8.7 feet). Star Lake is located in the Western Corn Belt Plains (WCBP) ecoregion. Star Lake watershed falls within the WCBP typical land use and the cultivated (Ag) percentage is near the higher end of the range but doesn't exceed it (Figure 1, 2 and Table 1).Dave Henke and Daniel Dougherty monitored Secchi depth, temperature, and dissolved oxygen (DO) profiles weekly and collected chemistry samples monthly from May through September 2009 and 2010, as part of the Advanced Citizen Lake Monitoring Program (CLMP+).