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Lake Aerators - December 2025
Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan Public SchoolsMonday, January 12, 2026
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[0:00] Today we are out installing airators out
[0:01] at Lake Farquar. So we install airators
[0:03] on multiple different lakes just to help
[0:05] sustain fish [music] populations. So the
[0:07] airator actually creates an open water
[0:08] hole. The airator kind of gets some
[0:10] bubbles moving and then that helps us
[0:12] sustain the fish populations that we
[0:14] want [music] which help eat those bad
[0:16] fish. So the three lakes that we do
[0:18] operate air raators on are Alamagnet,
[0:20] Farquar, [music] and Scout Lake. So,
[0:22] because these lakes are shallow, we want
[0:24] to ensure that we're keeping those
[0:26] oxygen levels up so that those good fish
[0:27] can survive and we don't get a winter
[0:29] fish kill. So, in order to operate an
[0:31] airator on the lake, we have [music] to
[0:32] get a Minnesota DNR permit. And that
[0:35] requires us to put up thin ice signs
[0:36] around the lake. [music] And those signs
[0:38] have to be about 100 ft apart. Some of
[0:41] the signs will be on shore and some of
[0:42] them will actually be on the [music]
[0:44] lake with safety cones that we use slush
[0:46] from the lake to actually freeze them
[0:47] in. And then once the hole is cut, we
[0:50] put the airator in and let it do its
[0:51] thing. The aators will operate until
[0:54] mid-March, but it's totally dependent on
[0:56] how the winter goes.