Information on Silver Lake

Ordinary High Water  908.00 

100-Yr. Flood Elev 909.7 (District, 10-day snowmelt) 

Silver Lake is a shallow semi-developed lake that appears to be impacted negatively from the land use practices around it.  Silver along with North Twin, South Twin, Carol and Loon lakes form the headwaters of the Silver Creek Flowage and a part of the Silver Creek Protective Corridor.  In-lake phosphorus concentrations in 2008 were better than the MPCA shallow lake standard of (60mg/L).  Uncontrolled non-point source runoff from agricultural and residential properties poses the greatest potential problem for future management of this lake.