Moorehead Park Pond IA 06-LSR-1587

Ida County S10T87NR39W 0.5 mi N of Ida Grove.

This is a Legacy Assessment. Prior to 2004, assessments were developed under a methodology that pre-dated the Integrated Report guidelines.

Assessment Cycle

1992

Result Period

1988 - 1990

Designations

Assessment Type

Monitored

Integrated Report

Category 0

Legacy ADBCode

IA 06-LSR-00805-L_0

Overall Use Support

Partial

Aquatic Life Use Support

Partial

Fish Consumption

Not assessed

Documentation

Assessment Comments

Monitored in 1990 by ISU as part of the Clean Lakes Classification study (1994).

Basis for Assessment

Fishable use was assessed as PS for the 1992 report; assessment was changed to FST for the 1994 report for the following reasons: (1) results of monitoring show that averages of secchi depth, chl-a, total-P, and TSS are approximately equal to, or better than, overall averages for the 116 SPOLs sampled in 1990 and 1992; (2) according to Bachmann et al. (1994), lake does not have problems with fishkills and supports a relatively high amount of fishing. Support of uses is threatened by the relatively high sedimentation rate (7.0 cm/yr) and consequently the relatively short estimated life expectancy (56 years).