There are many projects going on at Rice Lake. Below you will find what is happening right now.

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• About the 2011 Flooding - a Stearns County bulletin

•  Impaired Water Listing and TMDL Study -- click here to read about it (in a new tab)

• [New] The Rice Lake Shoreland Survey! Results coming soon.

• Friends of Rice Lake "Social Network" around the lake... on NING

• Highway 55 Cleanup -- Fall Road Cleanup to be scheduled

• Boat Parade --Click here to see some pictures of the 2009 parade

• Water Quality Monitoring

     • Rice Lake Overview Opens in a new tab

• [New] Water Monitoring Results in 2010 (pdf, in new tab)

• [New] Download the  Bemidji State study correlating property values with water quality.  (pdf, in new tab)

• [New] Download a study of Property Values around Rice and Koronis. (pdf, in new tab)

 TMDL Documents

•   TMDL Monitoring Equipment Installed
•    TMDL Update by Wenck & Associates, Dec. 15, 2009
•   TMDL Stakeholders meeting, May 22, 2010 (Paynesville Press article)
•    TMDL Update by Wenck & Associates, March 17, 2011 (PDF, new tab)
•   [New] TMDL Study by Wenck & Associates, June 29, 2011 (PDF, new tab)
•   [New] TMDL Implementation Plan by Wenck & Associates (PDF, new tab)

  NFCRWD Ten Year Plan - Approved by BWSR, Feb 2011 (PDF)

 Paynesville Storm Water Management Plan

• Septic System Inspection Project

• Camp Shoreline Project -- click here to see pictures of results.

• Van Bank Project

• Hickman Project