Conservation Minnesota’s Check My Lake website makes it easy to check on anyone’s favorite Minnesota lake is back with new features. Included are listings of over 30 newly-listed lakes infested by non-native species and over 100 lakes newly-listed as “impaired” or polluted. The site gives a thumbs-up or thumbs-down for lakes on two criteria: pollution of waters and contamination of sportfish.

To find out which lakes have joined the list, click here.

Please note:  A new listing of an impaired lake does not necessarily mean pollution in the lake has worsened.  Typically, it means new testing and assessment has been done and shows the lake does not meet state clean water standards.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 at 2:56 pm by Dave Dempsey, Conservation Minnesota and is filed under Water. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.