Lake Water Quality 

There are 72 lakes in the Watershed. Of these lakes, Reeds and St Olaf were found to be not impaired and fully supporting recreational use, both however do have an aquatic consumption impairment due to mercury in fish tissue. Eagle, Elysian, Freeborn, Madison, and Lura are impaired for impacts to aquatic recreation and aquatic life due to nutrients and fish bioassessments. The remaining lakes within the watershed had insufficient data to make a formal assessment. There are no known significant water control structures on area lakes and rivers, however, there are dams controlling the outlets on multiple lakes, such as Elysian, Buffalo, Silver, Eagle, Madison and Freeborn. Fish barriers are on the outlets of Freeborn Lake and Lake Elysian.