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tLake Vegetation Management Plan <br />The Lake Owasso Association recognizes that they are responsible for organizing permit requests for <br />treatment, obtaining permission from landowners for near shore property management (areas less than <br />150 feet from shore), ensuring that water quality monitoring is done in accordance to DNR guidelines, if <br />monitoring is required, and submitting reports of annual activities and ongoing monitoring results. <br />Section IV: Problems to be addressed in this Plan (narrative): <br />The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) revised the aquatic plant management (APM) <br />rules on April 15, 2009. The clause allowing the Lake Owasso Association to chemically treat a greater <br />percentage of littoral area than the rest of the lakes in Minnesota is set to expire by April 15, 2014. The <br />DNR is required to develop lake vegetation management plan (LVMP) for Lake Owasso before the <br />clause expires, to guide the management of aquatic plants in the lake. LVMP is a document the DNR <br />develops with public input to address aquatic vegetation issues on a lake and allows a targeted <br />management plan to address those issues. <br />The problems addressed and solutions implemented will control invasive aqautic plants, <br />maintain /improve native aqauatic plant diversity, maintain /improve water quality and build flexibility <br />into the plan so if future problems become widespread those issues may be adressed. <br />Section V: Goals for Management of Aquatic Plants (narrative, include a description of efforts to <br />protect rare features): <br />Lake Owasso LVMP 3 <br />