Lake Meyer improvements will be a "win-win for landowners"

Winneshiek County Conservation Director Barb Schroeder met with county supervisors Monday to give them further details about the agreement by the Iowa DNR to pay 75 percent of the cost of improvements to Lake Meyer Park.

The money will help pay for the construction of sediment retention basin at Lake Meyer Park.   The goal is to improve the lake's overall water quality. Doug Egeland Tiling has been awarded a contract to complete the sediment basin. The work, scheduled for summer of 2019, will not impact fishing or other lake use, though it will include closure of the portion of the park road that leads to the Lake Meyer Nature Center.

Schroeder told supervisors the goal is to have sediment catchment basins for all the drainage areas around the lake.  "Having that will be huge," she told the board, estimating that two or three more culverts will have catchment basins built for them.

Schroeder says previous projects at Lake Meyer have also been aimed at improving water quality in Lake Meyer.  She says those projects are "paying off big."  Next year's work will be a "win-win for landowners" around the park, she concludes.