Hubbard County Surface Water Monitoring Program - Surface Water Assessment Grant (SWAG)

This project will include water quality monitoring on two rivers and twenty lakes found within the Crow Wing River Watershed. ‏Rivers included are Fishhook and Straight River; lakes included are Mow, Big Bass, 11 CROW WING (MAIN), 11 CROW‏WING (EAST), Tenth Crow Wing, Third Crow Wing, Fourth Crow Wing, First Crow Wing, Shallow, Deer, Waboose, East‏ Crooked, Middle Crooked, West Crooked, Dead, Ojibway, Upper Twin, Pickerel, Moran, Little Mantrap, Portage. Water quality ‏sampling will be conducted according to Minnesota Pollution Control Agency work plan parameters. 14 lakes and both streams will be sampled and monitored in‏2020; both streams and remaining 6 lakes will be monitored and sampled in 2021. Streams will be sampled multiple times in‏ the months of June, July, and August according to the sampling schedule. In addition, temperature profiles will be collected at ‏the lake sites during each visit and photographs will be taken to compliment the data at each sample site.