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  • Membership/Donation
  • Get Involved
  • Events - 2025 Calendar
  • Events - 2025 Details
  • Year End Videos
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  • Events - 2024 Recap

New Boater Education Law | Takes Effect July 1, 2025

How would you like to have a chance to win a $50 Gift Card?

Starting on July 1, 2025, a new Minnesota law will require both adults and youth who operate motorboats, including personal watercraft, to have a valid watercraft operator's permit. This law is designed to make boating safer by ensuring  everyone operating a motorized watercraft knows the rules and is properly trained. 


This law is being phased in over the next few years:

  • Anyone born after June 30, 2004 will need to be certified by July 1, 2025
  • Anyone born after June 30, 2000 will need to be certified by July 1, 2026
  • Anyone born after June 30, 1996 will need to be certified by July 1, 2027
  • Anyone born after June 30, 1987 will need to be certified by July 1, 2028


The SLA along with the Scott County Sheriff’s Office strongly encourage all boaters to take and pass the available on-line boating training. The Boat Certificate Training website is: https://www.boaterexam.com/usa/minnesota 


To further support this initiative, any paid 2025 SLA Family Member who emails a copy of their permit to Board.SLA@gmail.com by August 1, 2025 will be eligible for a drawing for one of ten $50 VISA Gift Cards.                           

Click the Boater Education Card to connect to the Minnesota Boating License Website.


Question Answered

November 2024 - A SLA Member noticed something green around his shoreline and asked SLA what is was? 


We sent the question to The Lake Detective, Steve McComas.  Below is his response.  


With extended warm weather in September and October, summer-like weather has extended into fall, and I’m noticing late algal blooms in many lakes as well.The blue and green pigments washed on shore are from dying cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). Their growing season was a little longer than normal, but they are dying off now (I’ve attached a column I wrote about the longer than normal growing season this year). The  eastern shoreline of Spring Lake gets a lot of plants and algae being blown into shore over the growing season. 

Click the Link below to review The Lake Detective - Steve  McComas - 2024 Year In Review Article

The Lake Detective - Steve Mccomas - 2024 Year in Review (pdf)Download

Read before you remove your lake equipment

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Article | By Steve McComas

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Spring Lake Aquatic Plants 201 Education Seminar 07-26-2023

SLA 201 Plant Seminar - Part 1 (pdf)Download
SLA 201 Plant Seminar - Part 2 (pdf)Download

You are Invited to Spring Lake Aquatic Plants 201 Education Seminar

Spring Lake Aquatic Plants 101 Education Seminar August 4, 2022

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You are Invited to Spring Lake Aquatic Plants 101 Education Seminar

MN DNR Boating & Water Recreation Regulations

As a user of the Lakes, it is your responsibility to be informed about Minnesota Boating laws.

  Click the Boating Guide Photo for a copy of the Minnesota Boating Guide and click the MN DNR link below to be directed to the MN DNR Website and find information on boating rules, regulations and fees. 

MN DNR Website

Educational Information

DNR Courtesy Warning - Hydraulic Jets - July 9, 2022 (pdf)Download
Get the Lead Out - MPCA (pdf)Download
Cold Water Safety (pdf)Download
Potential Vacant Lot for Sale on Spring Lake 01-08-2022 (pdf)Download
SpringLakeMap and Need to Know (pdf)Download
Buoy Map 8.5 X 11 (pdf)Download
SpringLake JuristrictionMap (pdf)Download
Floating Bog Policy - PLSLWD 2017 (pdf)Download
Water Improvement Award PLSLWD 2017 (pdf)Download

Danger! Thin Ice | Please Read

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Our Lakeshore Connection Video

Animated video about lakeshore restoration and stewardship created in collaboration with the Anoka County Water Resource Outreach Collaborative and several local Lake Associations. 

Spring Lake Public Hearings

https://springlaketownship.com/

Spring Lake Public Hearing - Personal boat slips and mooring facilitates 09-25-2019 (pdf)Download
Spring Lake Public Hearing - Shoreland Docks Redlines (pdf)Download
Spring Lake Public Hearing - Short Term Dock Rental Redline (pdf)Download

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