(Arnolds Park)– Water quality of Lower Gar Lake will be the topic of a public meeting next month in Arnolds Park.
Steve Anderson of the Iowa Great Lakes Cleanwater Alliance says it stems from the lake being included on a list of impaired waterways the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has submitted to the U-S Environmental Protection Agency. He says the D-N-R must come up with a plan to improve the lake’s water quality to get it removed from the list. One way of doing that, he says, is to establish what’s known as a “total maximum daily load”. Anderson says the T-D-M-L outlines how much of a given contaminant the lake can withstand before it becomes polluted. He says the plan addresses ways of decreasing the pollutants to improve water quality.
Anderson says a D-N-R representative will be on hand at the January 21st meeting to explain the plan. The meeting will start at 7:00 that evening at the Iowa Great Lakes Maritime Museum in Arnolds Park. All interested persons are invited. Anderson says there will be a question-and-answer session as well.
