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Current Lake Levels: For current lake levels on Prior Lake and Spring Lake, please visit the Waterbodies section and click on Prior Lake or Spring Lake.
See any carp in lakes, streams or wetlands near you? Report your observations with our new carp observations reporting form at the link below! You can share photos, basic details about the carp and mark the location on a map.
Registration for this event is free but an RSVP is requested. Whether you live on a lake, pond, river, or stream, help do your part to protect and improve the quality of our local water bodies.
Have you seen any carp on your area of the lake? Make sure and let us know. Our crew has already pulled about about 1,000 pounds of carp from Upper and Lower Prior Lakes.
The District has many volunteer opportunities: monitor District lakes, measure precipitation, join us for clean-up events or help with carp!
Segment 3 of the Prior Lake Outlet Channel, near Kici Yapi Camp.
A peek at the fixed crest weir inside the Prior Lake Outlet Structure. Click the button to check out our interactive StoryMap and learn more about the Outlet Structure!
The weir at the Ferric Chloride Facility, south of Cty Road 13 and downstream of Cty Ditch 13.
Segment 1 of the Prior Lake Outlet Channel, near Jeffers Pond Elementary.
Each year the PLSLWD prepares its Annual Report. Complete information about the work done by the district in 2022 is included in the report.
Check out the Educational/Interpretive signs that were installed at Fish Lake. Learn about installing a Rain Garden, Prairie Restoration and Creating a Living Shoreline
PLSLWD staff and Spring Lake Association stocked nearly 3,700 Blue Gills into the wetlands connected to Spring Lake. Why Blue Gills? They love to eat carp eggs. Thank you to 10,000 Lakes Aquaculture and the SLA for making this happen
Neighbors in the Spring Lake areas of Vergas Avenue and Raymond Avenue took advantage of the warm weekend weather to stencil drains in their neighborhood. Contact the PLSLWD if you'd like to stencil drains in your neighborhood.
Our mission is to manage and preserve the water resources of the Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District to the best of our ability using input from our communities, sound engineering practices, and our ability to efficiently fund beneficial projects which transcend political jurisdictions.
The PLSLWD office (located in the lower level of City Hall) is open Monday-Friday 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM. If you need to drop something office in our office and the front window gate is down, feel free to drop your items at the front desk of City Hall.
The Prior Lake level logger and graph have been fixed. The Spring Lake logger is still out for repair. We were eager to get the logger installed. The ice sheet caused the logger and well to become submerged.
Since early April, all of the lakes in the upper watershed (Fish Lake and Buck Lake for example) are full and are discharging into Spring Lake. Spring Lake is also “full” and is discharging to Upper and Lower Prior Lakes.
We expect the Prior Lakes to continue to slowly rise over the next few weeks. By how much and how quickly, will highly depend on weather conditions.
The map below shows how the water flows through the Watershed.
The District’s rules were adopted on May 10, 2022 and became effective on June 1, 2022. Click HERE to download the adopted rules.
Interested in serving your community by working directly with the Watershed District? The PLSLWD is looking for passionate District residents to join the Citizen Advisory Committee! The CAC influences the work of the District by providing input and recommendations to the board on District programs and projects. CAC members are appointed by the Board of Manager and serve three-year terms. CAC meetings are typically held on the last Thursday of the month at 6:30 pm. To read more about the committee and complete the application, click the following link:
https://www.plslwd.org/get-involved/citizen-advisory-committee-cac/
The Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District includes 14 major bodies of water, over 730 wetlands and one County Ditch.
Check out our Projects page to see what we’re doing to manage and preserve our local water resources!