Despite the best efforts of LMPA board members Kevin Zahler and Scot Lacek, our partners in Carver County’s Water Management Organization and Lake Restoration, the DNR rejected our request for approval of our Lake Management Plan. The LMP would have allowed us to pursue a 5 year program to significantly reduce the level of curly leaf pondweed in the lake by treating over twice our normal acreage. This would make for better conditions for recreational boaters and fewer invasive weeds washing up on our shorelines.
We had great success with our partnership with Lake Restoration on nearly eradicating eurasian water milfoil and we were hoping for the same with CLP. In the end the DNR allowed us to treat just 43.5 acres of the weed growing areas rather than the 100 acres we were pursuing.
The treatment for CLP was performed the first week of May. The treatment zones are highlighted in yellow in the map above.
Thank you Kevin and Scot for all of your hard work on this.
