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anticipate hosting fishingopportunities on Round Lake similar to these areas and propose to partnerwith MNDNR to bring FIN program activities to Round Lake.Fishing in the Neighborhood seeks to increase angling opportunities, public awareness and environmental stewardship within the metro region.Fishing will be allowed from the shore and a designated fishing platform. No boats will be allowed on the lake in order to minimize disturbance to wildlife using other parts of Round Lake. Some improvements to Service infrastructure are central to providing these public uses (Figure 2, Figure 3). We propose a spur trail that would extend from the existing trail on the west side of the Unit to a new fishing platform on the southwest side of Round Lake. Another trail will be placed on Refuge property adjacent to the Round Lake outlet. This trail will start at Old Highway 10 and follow the lake outlet channel to the southern lakeshore. From there the trail willfollow the lakeshore to the west and link up with either the existing trail on the west side of the lake or the City’s park property midway along the southern shore. Prior to the Round Lake Unit being placed in caretaker status in the early 1980s, the City of Arden Hills was actively discussing linking the city park with the Unit. We envision that will finally occur. A new observation platform specifically designed for environmental education and interpretive programming will be constructed on the Service lakeshore either near the outlet channel or adjacent to the city park. This platform would be designed to provide both a good view of the entire lake surface as well as easy access to the wetland habitat along the shore. Similar proposed actions to accomplish Service objectives for the Round Lake Unit were identified in earlier Unit management documents in 1979, 1982, and 1998 (USFWS 1979, 1982, 1998). The Service’s planned management actions were modified to manage ecological risk upon discovery of significant contamination of the Round Lake ecosystem in the early 1980s (USFWS 1981). The Service presumes that the current ecological risk posed to the Round Lake ecosystem will be mitigated via the actions of the Superfund remediation project in such a manner that enable this vision to be fulfilled. Resource Management Concepts Water Management. The dominating feature of the Round Lake Unit is Round Lake itself. The lake is about 125 acres at a surface elevation of 890 msl (Table 1). At this elevation, the lake has a maximum depth of nearly 22 feet. Since about the mid-1980s the lake elevation has been managed to try and maintain a level of 891 msl in order to reduce the exposure of wildlife and people to the contaminated sediments. A 1978 survey of the lake showed substrate consisting of 20% sand and rocks, 20% muck, and 60% detritus (Joarnt and Kenow, 1978). More recent samplingin 2011showed 6% sand, 1% silt, 43% muck, and 50% peat in the upper 0.5 ft. of the substrate; and showed 10% sand, 2% silt, 22% muck, and 66% peat in the 0.5 ft. to 1.0 ft. layer 8/6/2013 6 USFWS RLMP