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Is it safe to fish and swim?

By: angiehongmn August 18, 2023August 15, 2023

Aquatic Biology, Keeping water cleanfeatured, fishing, impaired waters, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota lakes, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, swimming, water quality1 Comment

How can you determine if your favorite local lake is safe for fishing and swimming? Though water quality data is collected and updated regularly, finding the information online isn’t terribly intuitive.

Rumor has it there’s a rumor in town

By: angiehongmn June 25, 2020June 23, 2020

Aquatic Biology, Keeping water clean, Outdoor Adventuresclean water, featured, fishing, Minnesota lakes, Oakdale, ramsey washington metro watershed district, swimming1 Comment

Tanners Lake is part of the Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District (RWMWD), and the district has worked hard to improve and protect water quality in the lake over the past 20 years. In fact, Tanners was one of the first lakes in Minnesota to be removed from the state’s impaired waters list (in 2004) after phosphorus levels went down and algae stopped being a problem.

Swimming to Antarctica

By: angiehongmn February 7, 2017

Keeping water cleanclean water, EPA, rivers, swimmingLeave a Comment

In the United States, most of us are accustomed to lakes and rivers that are clean enough to swim, fish, and play in, without risk from rotting carcasses or dangerous bacteria and viruses.