"The Water Quality and Management of Lakes in the Twin Cities Metropoli" by Richard A. Osgood and Gary L. Oberts

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The Water Quality and Management of Lakes in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area

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Richard A. Osgood
Gary L. Oberts

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Article

Publication Date

1989

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Water quality--Minnesota

Abstract

ABSTRACT-We have detected a slow degradation in the water quality of Twin Cities Metropolitan Area lakes du~ to phospho_rus enrichment. While the water quality of the lakes does not appear to limit most uses, nmsances do exist. We have further discovered that commonly-used watershed treatments such as wetland diversions and ponding, are ineffective ~t reversing or completely mitigating the degradati~n following land development. Th_erefore, we are su~gestmg that lake managers reduce the external loading of phosphorus to the greatest ~oss_1ble extent; then, 1f further water quality improvements are necessary, that measures which treat eutroph1cat1on-related symptoms be considered for the long-term management of the lakes.

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Osgood, R. A., & Oberts, G. L. (1989). The Water Quality and Management of Lakes in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, Vol. 55 No.1, 78-80.
Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas/vol55/iss1/13

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