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FISH TRAP LAKE PROPERTY

OWNERS ASSOCIATION

Welcome to our Website

The mission of the Fish Trap Lake Property Owners Association is to preserve our wildlife and water quality and promote safe recreation for the Fish Trap Lake Community. The first meeting of the association was held on August 11, 1973, nearly 35 years ago. We have a proud heritage of working with the community and local government to make Fish Trap Lake safe and fun for recreation while preserving the lake's environmental quality.

We've developed this website to provide current news and rapid updates and to hear comments and concerns from lakeshore owners.

News Flash - Current lake updates -5/4/2010

Professional Lake Management will be treating the same area as last year and will be applying the chemical treatment for curly-leaf pondweed on 5/5/2010.

The 2009/10 treatment areas (areas 1,4,5 and 6) can be seen on the delineation map at the bottom of the link to curly-leaf pondweed updates. That page also contains a map showing the May 22, 2008 treatment areas, the June 2008 Delineation and treatment safety information. Professional Lake Management (PLM) has assured us that concentrations used are so slight that there are no risks to swimmers. For additional safety information, please visit the link below on Curly-leaf Pondweed Treatment Updates (bottom of that page).

The most recent meeting of the Fish Trap Lake Property Owners Association was on Saturday, March 20,2010, at Scandia Valley Town Hall. Our next board meeting is our general meeting on June 19, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. All are invited. Please see the upcoming events link for our agenda. For meeting minutes, please see our link below.

The DNR completed a point intercept study in May 2009. You can see the study on the DNR website at

http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/natural_resources/water/lakes/vegetation_reports/49013700.pdf

In 2008, the Morrison County Board voted to establish a Fish Trap Lake LID. The first meeting of the LID was on 8/30/2008. A second meeting was held on September 20th. Please go to the link below for the Lake Improvement District to see the agendas and meeting minutes. The most recent meeging was held on July 18th. Meeting minutes have been posted on this website. In 2009, the LID entered into a three year contract with PLM, the company that treated the curly-leaf pondweed in 2007 through 2009.

In 2008, the DNR completed the delineation of Fish Trap Lake and has compiled the data. Please go to the link below on Curly-leaf Pondweed Treatment Updates to view the map which shows the areas of curly-leaf pondweed on Fish Trap Lake during the last week of June, 2008, approximately one month after the lake was treated.

The decision to treat the lake was made at our general meeting in June. The decision to treat approximately 60 acres and to hire PLM was made at our FTLPOA Board meeting on March 8, 2008. we voted to spend $10,000 of our savings in addition to our $5,000 grant for the treatment of curly-leaf pondweed this spring. We have hired Professional Lake Management to treat the all acres approved by the DNR. By law, we cannot treat more than 15% of our total 404 littoral acres (60.6 acres). We currently have curly-leaf pondweed on approximately 136 acres but, in 2008, can only treat less than half of it. PLM has developed a plan to most effectively address curly-leaf pondweed on our lake. The selection by PLM of the areas on the southwest shores is based on the goal of treating the worst areas and concentrating on entire bays in the southwest and west where the prevailing winds come from. For a photo of Curly-leaf pondweed, please go to our page on Curly-leaf Pondweed Treatment Updates.

For 2008 data on water quality test results and Secchi disk readings (water samples and Secchi disk readings collected by Jim Fogelberg), please go to www.rmbel.info. 2009 data will be posted soon.