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Water Quality Assessments
Impaired Waters List

South Prairie Lake IA 02-CED-962

Black Hawk Co.; west of Waterloo in S35 T89N R14W

Cycle
2022
Release Status
Final
Overall IR
2 - Some of the designated uses are met but there is insufficient data to determine if remaining designated uses are met.
Trophic
Eutrophic
Trend
Improving
Trend Comment
The lakes pH level contine to improve leading the delisting of the pH impairment in the 2022 assessment cycle.
Created
12/27/2021 10:37:41 AM
Updated
2/1/2022 9:13:05 AM
Use Support
Class BLW
Aquatic Life - Lakes and wetlands
Fully Supported
Class HH
Human Health -
Not Assessed
Impairment Delistings
Cycle Added Class Cause Data Source Rationale
2018 Class BLW pH Ambient monitoring: Iowa DNR-lakes New data: WQ improvement (chemical / physical / bacterial)
Documentation
Assessment Summary

The Class BLW use was assessed as "fully supported." All other designated uses were “not assessed.” Note: This lake is not designated for Class A1 (primary contact recreation) use.

Assessment Explanation

Data Sources:

Data Source

Data Source ID

Data Type

Data Age

Site ID

Site Name

Site Description

Iowa DNR

6

WQ

CY 2016-2020

22070005

South Prairie Lake

Class BLW - Conventional Parameters:

Site ID

Data Source ID

Parameter Name

# Samples / # Years

Minimum Value

Maximum Value

Mean Value

# Violations

# Acute / Chronic Violations

Violations needed for impairment

Violates Significantly >10% Rule?

Assessment Type

Support Level

22070005

6

Ammonia

15 / 5

0.0003

0.2904

0.05

NA

0 / 0

4

NO

Monitored

Full

22070005

6

Dissolved Oxygen

15 / 5

4

14.8

9.8

1

NA / NA

4

NO

Monitored

Full

22070005

6

pH

15 / 5

7.8

9.2

8.6

1

NA / NA

4

NO

Monitored

Full

22070005

6

Temperature

15 / 5

17.2

28

24

0

NA / NA

4

NO

Monitored

Full

South Prairie Lake was assessed as "not supported" for the 2018 assessment/listing cycle due to frequent violations of the state Class BLW criterion for pH. Based on DNR’s assessment methodology 2 consecutive assessment/listing cycles without significantly greater than 10% of the samples violating the single-sample maximum criterion are necessary to propose delisting based on pH violations. There were less than 10% of the samples exceeding the single-sample maximum criterion for the 2020or current 2022assessment listing cycle. Therefore, the impairment for pH is suggested for delisting for the 2022 assessment/listing cycle.

Class BLW - Lake Planktonic Cyanobacteria:

Site ID

Data Source ID

# Samples

Maximum Cyanobacteria Wet Mass

Maximum Cyanobacteria % Composition

Median Cyanobacteria Wet Mass

Median Cyanobacteria % Composition

Median Cyanobacteria Concentration = 75th Percentile

Assessment Type

Support Level

22070005

6

6

34.20

73.1%

1.88

45.1%

NO

Evaluated

NA

Class HH: No Data

Monitoring and Methods
Assessment Key Dates
6/6/2016
Fixed Monitoring Start Date
9/21/2020
Fixed Monitoring End Date
Methods
120
Surveys of fish and game biologists/other professionals
222
Non-fixed-station monitoring (conventional during key seasons and flows)
340
Primary producer surveys (phytoplankton/periphyton/macrophyton)