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Evaluation Of A Recreational Lake Rehabilitation Project, Clyde Brashier Aug 1975

Evaluation Of A Recreational Lake Rehabilitation Project, Clyde Brashier

2019: Dr. Clyde Brashier

Lake Herman, a recreational, shallow, warm water prairie lake near Madison, South Dakota drain in extensively cultivated watershed and acts as a siltation basin for a chain of four lakes. The lake is more than half silted in and since 1968 various rehabilitation efforts have been made, including the construction of silt traps and lake dredging.

Continuation of the monitoring of twenty plus chemical levels and biological populations of green algae, blue-green algae and diatoms has revealed two major changes: (1) ortho phosphate and total phosphorus levels (which increased markedly with the beginning of dredging) have decreased since dredging has …


New Life For Prairie Lakes, Clyde Brashier, T. W. Edminster Jun 1969

New Life For Prairie Lakes, Clyde Brashier, T. W. Edminster

2019: Dr. Clyde Brashier

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