Metropolitan Council of the Twin Cities AreaThis layer contains point locations for each of the Metropolitan Council's lake monitoring sites. Many of the sites are inactive but historic data is still available on the Council's Environmental Information Management System (EIMS). MCES monitors lakes to obtain and provide information that enable cities, counties, lake associations, and watershed management districts to better manage TCMA lakes, thereby protecting and improving lake water quality. Monitoring is conducted by Metropolitan Council staff and by citizen volunteers as part of the MCES Citizen-Assisted Monitoring Program (CAMP).To show the location of lake monitoring sites in the CAMP program and Council's own monitoring program.This dataset shows all lake sampling sites in the Council's Environmental Information Management System (EIMS), and is synced with the EIMS system weekly.Filesus-mn-state-metc-env-mces-lake-monitoring-sitesengPublicMCES Lake Monitoring Sites [Minnesota]DatasetsMinnesota--Anoka CountyMinnesota--Carver CountyMinnesota--Dakota CountyMinnesota--Hennepin CountyMinnesota--Ramsey CountyMinnesota--Scott CountyMinnesota--Washington CountyMinnesota--Twin Cities Metropolitan AreaMinnesotaMinnesota Geospatial Commons