DNR has yet to rule on multi-season drawdown of Lake Ocheda

DNR has yet to rule on multi-season drawdown of Lake Ocheda

WORTHINGTON — It’s been more than a year since the Okabena-Ocheda Watershed District requested that the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources consider approving an addendum to Lake Ocheda’s management plan to allow for a multi-season drawdown of the shallow prairie lake south of Worthington. When the district didn’t receive a response by early August last year, its board of managers decided to pull the stop logs on the Ocheda dam in hopes th…