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it home in this open space area. As a result, deer, ducks, and loons are frequently sighted lake residents and lake users. The City of Lake Elmo plans to establish walking/biking trails along roads around Lake The paths will increase the usage of the lake by the public. ' 9.6 VBWD Water Quality ManaUment Goals Section 3.2 -- Water Quality Management Plan identifies Lake Jane as a Category I lake, on its existing water quality and existing and desired recreational uses. Further ption of this water quality classification is included in Section 3.2. Also as shown in Section 3.2, Lake Jane is to be managed in order to protect and possibly re its water quality. Because of the late summer algae blooms interfering with swimming, Jane is considered as "borderline" in terms of water quality/usage conflicts. The addition )re tributary area would likely exacerbate the situation.. If the Lake Jane tributary watershed does not increase, little change in .phosphorus ig is expected in the future. For this reason, the lake's water quality is expected to remain present level. Therefore; management of the lake will focus on the use of Best gement Practices within its existing watershed. However, because of its relatively small age area, it appears that the phosphorus loading from on -site septic systems may be a source of phosphorus for the lake. This is especially true in years where no overflow Lake Olson into Lake Jane occurs. Elimination of this source of phosphorus to the lake therefore result in water quality improvement. VBWD will complete hydrologic and !nt budgets for Lake Jane, depending on the availability of funds. These budgets will 9er both existing and ultimate watershed land use conditions and include the impact of systems on phosphorus loads. After Completion of the budgets, VBWD will set water y goals for Lake Jane, and examine feasible means of achieving these goals. In the future; water quality data will be collected from Lake Jane every three years, ding on the availability of funds. Because the Metropolitan Council collected data in e next scheduled water quality collection by VBWD will be during 1994. VBWD will er collecting phytoplankton and zooplankton data as a part of future sampling programs uate the level of natural control of the algal population by zooplankton grazing in Lake However, Secchi disc data will continue to be collected on an annual basis by a lake However, as a part of the MPCA Citizen Lake Monitoring Program. Eagle Point Creek Water Management Plan Location and General Description t gle Point Creek is an intermittent stream comprised of two major branches. The north ins in the City of Oakdale, west of I-694 and south of T.H. 5. From there, water flows enters the City of Lake Elmo and crosses Stillwater Boulevard near its intersection with et North. Water from VBWD's Project 1007 Tri-Lakes outlet crosses T.H. 5 just west :a Avenue North, crosses the railroad tracks and enters Beutel's Pond. Water from Pond crosses Stillwater Boulevard (CSAH 6) and enters the north fork of Eagle Point est of Ivy Avenue North. Then water flows southerly to Lake Elmo Park Reserve and hemmost bay of Eagle Point Lake. The north fork is DNR-protected from I-694 17) to Eagle Point Lake, a distance of 2.75 miles. t5\SEC4.RPT\KMH 34 DRAFT: June 23, 1994