Phase 2 of Fountain Lake dredging project begins
While this phase includes dredging the west basin of Main Bay, funding for the final phase is in the works
Posted: Apr 24, 2021 2:40 AM
Updated: Apr 24, 2021 8:21 AM
Posted By: Alex Jirgens
ALBERT LEA, Minnesota - It s a project aimed to address water quality issues affecting Fountain Lake and its three bays: Bancroft, Dane s and Edgewater.
Phase two of the multi-phase dredging project has officially kicked off, with dredgers cleaning out sediment and heavy phosphoric silt from the lake bed and pumped to an off-site confined disposal facility north of town. The phase includes the west basin of Main Bay, and about 380 cubic yards of sediment is slated to be removed.