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Team and Experience | 25A Proposal for Lake Orono Restoration and Enhancement (LORE) for the City of Elk River <br />Fountain Lake Habitat Restoration <br /> <br />CLIENT: SHELL ROCK RIVER WATERSHED DISTRICT (SRRWD) <br />DURATION: JAN 2014 - CURRENT <br />KEY WSB STAFF: LUKE LUNDE, JEFF ROLFSON, MIKE <br />RASK, AMY ANDERSON <br />The project is located within the City limits of <br />Albert Lea, Minnesota. Fountain Lake is a part of <br />interconnected shallow lake system that ultimately <br />covey surface water into the Shell Rock River. The <br />goal of the project is to restore and enhance Fountain <br />Lake’s historic lake bottom elevations, in-lake and <br />shoreland habitat features, and stabilize the lakeshore. <br />The project is expected to improve dissolved oxygen <br />(DO) and water clarity while improving in-lake habitat, <br />reducing total phosphorus (TP) and total suspended <br />solids (TSS) while at the same time ensure that <br />construction activities would not negatively impact <br />down gradient water features that include Albert Lea <br />Lake and the Shell Rock River. <br />Services that WSB has currently completed for the <br />project include obtaining grant funding for a portion <br />of the project, vegetation assessments using a cover <br />density line transect survey methodology for riparian <br />areas, bathymetric analysis, lake bottom sediment <br />analysis, design and engineering, state and federal <br />permitting, competitive bid assistance, interagency <br />coordination, and construction administration. <br />Deep and shallow aquatic habitat are currently under <br />the dredging phase of the project to maintain and <br />enhance game fish populations; riparian habitats are <br />designed to attract and support migratory and resident <br />wildlife populations. <br />Presently dredging of the lake bottom to historic <br />elevations is occurring which will be completed in the <br />fall of 2020. Lake habitat features will be implemented <br />once the dredging is completed. Lake shoreland <br />restoration construction will begin in December of 2019. <br />REFERENCE: ANDY HENSCHEL | ADMINISTRATOR | 214 MAIN STREET | ALBERT LEA, MN 56007 | 507.377.5785