Carman Lake Restoration Manager Problem

20 points
Due: September 12

You have been hired as the lake restoration manager of Carman Lake. This lake is located in northern Indiana and is 1700 acres in size with an average depth of 14 feet. The watershed to lake area ratio is 12:1 (e.g. the total watershed area is 20,400 acres. The area draining into the lake is composed of two watersheds - Big Bear Creek Watershed and Little Bear Creek Watershed. Within the Big Bear Creek Watershed 1% of the area is feedlot, 30% is pasture, 4% is urban, 58% is row cropped and the remaining area is in forest. For the Little Bear Creek Watershed 65% of the area is pasture, 2% is urban, 14% is row cropped and the remaining area is forest.

Use "The Carman Lake Project" software to “clean up” Carman Lake. As the manager, you can review an evaluation report of your performance within the software at any time. Print a copy of your evaluation report and the "Teacher Printout" at the end of 20 years on the job. Note if you have difficulties printing these, use Alt Printscreen to put these on the clipboard and then paste these in a Word document to print them. Also prepare a brief typed report (1-2 pages is sufficient) describing the BMPs (best management practices) you implemented and your rationale for selecting these. The majority of your grade for this assignment will be based on your report and not the success in reducing phosphorus levels in the lake. Also discuss how effective these were in reducing the phosphorus loading problem to Carman Lake. Note that you may wish to make several runs of the software before making a run for which you print an evaluation report and "Teacher Printout".