Click Here for Email & Mailing Addresses for the Iowa House of Representatives.

Click Here for Email & Mailing Addresses for the Iowa Senate.

Letter to the Editor: Click here to read.

Barbara Pardo (Regional Joint Venture Coordinator, Transition Information Task Team Upper Mississippi River/Great Lakes Region Joint Venture, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MBSP) in an email to Eric Lindstrom, Regional Biologist - Ducks Unlimited & Todd Bishop, Special Projects Coordinator, Wildlife Bureau Iowa DNR:
    "... And I will hope along with you that this experiment results in saving two more Iowa shallow lakes from recreational development. . . . Congratulations! . . . "

Verbatim Quote from Mike McGhee, Manager, Lake Restoration & Water Quality Improveent Program, at the DNR Informational meeting on July 28, 2009:

“…Current restoration program in Iowa prioritized 131 significant public lakes. I’ll tell you right up front, North Twin Lake is one of those 131 and South Twin Lake is not. And the factors for water quality public benefit, feasibility of restoration and then we have a we have a working priority list of about 35 of our top priority lakes and that we’ve been working on, we’ve added a few. This is where we are today, concentrating our effort, and we’ve provided a science based approach to lake restoration to the legislature and the legislature stepped up to the plate about 4 or 5 years ago and dramatically increased funding for lake restoration around the state. Our plan is adopted each year as proposed to the infrastructure subcommittee and they approve it and it gives our criteria guidelines and goals and our plans of upcoming years and what we’ve accomplished in the past year....”



Excerpt from the Iowa DNR December 26,  2006  "Lake Restoration Annual Report and Plan submitted to the Joint Appropriations Subcommitte on Transportation, Infrastructure, and Capitals and Legislative Services Agency".

......In 2006 a prioritized list of at least 50 shallow lakes to be "renovated" over the next 10 years was established by Ducks Unlimited and the Iowa DNR's Wildlife and Fisheries bureaus. The first lake to be renovated is Diamond Lake in Dickinson County. Renovation began during Summer 2006. Renovations in 2007 and 2008 are planned for the next six lakes on the list. Those lakes tentatively scheduled for 2007 include: Dan Green Slough, in Clay Co., and Pickerel Lake in Buena Vista Co. Planned renovations for 2008 include South Twin Lake in Calhoun Co., Virgin Lake in Palo Alto Co., and Lizard Lake In Pocahontas County.....

Click Here for Information on the DNR Shallow Lakes Management Initiative report included in the Iowa DNR "Lake Restoration 2008 Report and 2009 Plan Submitted to Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Infrastructure, and Capitals and Legislative Services Agency".

Click Here to see the April 2009 Contour Map of the Lake.

Correspondance with the Natural Resource Biologist, Blackhawk District Office.

May 11, 2009 Response letter from DNR Chief - Wildlife Bureau

June 30, 2009 Letter from George Antoniou, IDNR Lake Restoration Program to Daniel Higgenbottom, Archaeologist, State Historic Preservation Office.

Meeting Minutes 1937 - 1950 Re: Dredge North Twin Lake and deposit Silt in South Twin Lake.

Additional Information regarding the Lake Odessa Decimation. The the DNR wants to try to implement their failed program again. This time with South Twin Lake.

Water Samples - Big Wall Lake, Lizard Lake, & South Twin Lake taken July 11, 2009