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GRAND OPENING EVENT

Wednesday, October 3rd

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Clean Water Project at Sand Point Beach Park

Please join us at Sand Point Beach Park as we celebrate the Grand Opening of the new Clean Water Project that was recently installed. We’ll celebrate with caramel apples and hot cocoa as we hear more about how the project works. There will also be an opportunity prior to the event for volunteers to help plant flowers in the prairie restoration.

Clean Water Project:

At Sand Point Beach Park, stormwater from 82 acres of land is funneled through the park’s twin stormwater ponds before it enters Lower Prior Lake. Stormwater runoff picks up excess nutrients, such as phosphorus, on its way to Prior Lake. This excess phosphorus can contribute to summer algal blooms.

As a widely used recreational amenity for boating, fishing and swimming, the City of Prior Lake and the Prior Lake-Spring Lake Watershed District are working hard to improve the water quality in the lake and to keep it off the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s impaired lakes list.

The Clean Lake Project provides three components that work in harmony to provide stormwater treatment before entering Prior Lake:

1) Restoring and expanding two stormwater ponds

2) Installing an iron-enhanced sand filter

3) Restoring native prairie

As a result of these improvements, the project will reduce the amount of phosphorus entering Prior Lake from Sand Point Beach Park by 25 pounds per year. One pound of phosphorus can produce from 300 to 500 pounds of algae, so this project could reduce the amount of algae in Lower Prior Lake by as much as 12,500 pounds!

Grand Opening Event Activities:

If you would like more information about the event, the Clean Lake Project, or volunteering for the prairie planting, please contact us at: 952-447-9808 or mkarschnia@plslwd.org.