Lake Management Plans

A lake management plan is developed by residents and property owners and spells out concerns and management guidelines regarding a lake's character and environment. Residents and property owners of the lake develop the plan's goals and objectives through the planning process. The planning effort is facilitated by the Matanuska-Susitna Borough's Department of Planning and Land Use.

A Lake Management Plan has four key elements:

  1. Existing conditions (physical, historical, social, regulatory)
  2. Concerns or issues
  3. Goals and objectives
  4. Recommendations

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Lake Date Adopted Lake Characteristics Regulations

Big Lake

August 1998

 

Maximum Depth: 89 feet

Mean Depth: 30 feet

 

Motorized Watercraft Prohibited on Meadow Creek

Quiet Hours: 11:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Ice House Registration

No Wake Zone: 150 feet from shoreline

Blodgett Lake

September 1997

Surface Area: 57.6 acres

Maximum Depth: 29 feet

Mean Depth: 10.7 feet

Horsepower Limit: 10

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Quiet Hours:

10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Thurs.

11:00 pm - 8:00 am Fri. - Sat.

Bonnie Lake Area

November 1996

 

 

Upper Bonnie Lake

 

Surface Area: 105 acres

Maximum Depth: 35 feet

Mean Depth: Not Available

Electric Motors Only

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Bonnie Lake

 

Surface Area: 99.8 acres

Maximum Depth: 35 feet

Mean Depth: Not Available

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Ravine Lake

 

Surface Area: 12 acres

Maximum Depth: 25 feet

Mean Depth: 12 feet

Horsepower Limit: 10

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Carpenter Lake June 2006

Surface Area: 176 acres

Maximum Depth: 30 feet

Mean Depth: 8.1 feet

Personal Watercraft prohibited

10 HP Limit - Time Share

Quiet hours: 10 pm to 8 am Sun. - Sat.

No wake zone 100 feet from shore, Winter Motor Vehicle Ban

Christiansen Lake

September 1999

Surface Area: 179 acres

Maximum Depth: 82 feet

Mean Depth: 22 feet

Personal Watercraft prohibited

15 HP limit

Quiet Hours: 10 pm to 8 am, Sun. - Sat.

Special permit:  To accommodate building construction, early season testing of river boats & other special uses. HP limits maybe waived by Special permit.

Crooked Lake

August 1995

Surface Area: 250 acres

Maximum Depth: 35 feet

Mean Depth: 14 feet

No Wake Zone: 50 feet from shoreline at the public dock

Crystal Lake

August 1996

Surface Area: 132 acres

Maximum Depth: 24 feet

Mean Depth: 11.7 feet

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Diamond Lake

April 1999

Surface Area: 139 acres

Maximum Depth: 23 feet

Mean Depth: 7.6 feet

Horsepower Limit: 10

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Ice House Registration

No Wake Zone:  100 feet from ordinary high water mark

Florence Lake April 2006

Surface Area: 55 acres

Maximum Depth: 41 feet

Mean Depth: 17.6 feet

Quiet Hours: 10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

No Wake Zone: 100 feet from shoreline

Personal watercraft ban

Fish Lake

August 1997

Surface Area: 59 acres

Maximum Depth: Not Available

Mean Depth: Not Available

Horsepower Limit: 5

Honeybee Lake

November 1997

Surface Area: 58 acres

Maximum Depth: 35 feet

Mean Depth: 13.5 feet

Electric Motors Only

Quiet Hours:  7:00 pm - 9:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Island & Doubloon Lakes

August 1996

 

 

Island Lake

 

Surface Area: 85 acres

Maximum Depth: Not Available

Mean Depth: Not Available

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Doubloon Lake

 

Surface Area: 14 acres

Maximum Depth: Not Available

Mean Depth: Not Available

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Jean Lake

January 2006

Surface Area: 51 acres

Maximum Depth: 30 feet

Mean Depth: 3 - 5 feet

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Electric Motors only

Quiet Hours: 10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Commercial Floatplane Operations are discouraged

John Lake

August 1996

Surface Area: 52 acres

Maximum Depth: Not Available

Mean Depth: Not Available

Horsepower Limit: 10

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

(electric and trolling motors allowed during quiet hours)

Knik Lake

August 1995

Surface Area: 50 acres

Maximum Depth: 37 feet

Mean Depth: 19 feet

Horsepower Limit: 5

Quiet Hours: 

10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Thurs.

11:00 pm - 8:00 am Fri. - Sat.

Lake of the Woods

April 2010

Maximum Depth: 20-30 ft

Mean Depth: 10-12 ft

Quitet hours: 7:00 pm - 9:00 am  Sun. - Sat.

Personal watercraft ban

Electric motors only

Maintain current limited access

Liten Lake

January 2006

Surface Area: 57 acres

Maximum Depth: 10+ Feet

Mean Depth: 4 - 6 feet

Motorized Watercraft Prohibited

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

No Wake Zone: Lake Wide

Quiet Hours: 10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Public Access to the Lake is discouraged

Commercial Floatplane Operations are discouraged

Little Beaver Lake

June 2008

Surface Area: 44 acres

Maximum Depth: 20 feet

Mean Depth: 9 feet

Motorized Watercraft Prohibited.

Quiet Hours: 10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Maintain Current Limited Access.

Little Lonely Lake

May 2005

Surface Area: 56 Acres

Maximum Depth: 63 feet

Mean Depth: 20 feet

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Horsepower Limit: 10

No Wake Zone: Lake Wide

Quiet Hours: 10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Ice House Registration

Commercial Floatplane Operations are discouraged.

Long Lake (Houston)

November 2001

Surface Area: 44 acres

Maximum Depth: 17 feet

Mean Depth: 8.8 feet

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Horsepower Limit: 10

No Wake Zone:  100 feet from ordinary high water mark

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Marilee Lake

September 1998

Surface Area: 33.8 acres

Maximum Depth: 18 feet

Mean Depth: 7.3 feet

Horsepower Limit: 5

Marion Lake

November 2000

Surface Area: 113 acres

Maximum Depth: 42 feet

Mean Depth: 20.6 feet

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Quiet Hours:  10 pm. - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

No Wake Zone:

100 feet from ordinary high water mark.

Time Share:  A lake-wide no wake speed except on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and all three day weekends mandated by federal holiday (Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day).

Memory Lake

September 1998

Surface Area: 84 acres

Maximum Depth: 20 feet

Mean Depth: 7.2 feet

Horsepower Limit: 10

Quiet Hours:  10 pm. - 8:00 am Sun.- Sat.

Access to be day use only

Neklasen Lake

January 2000

Surface Area: 72 acres

Maximum Depth: 67 feet

Mean Depth: 16 feet

Personal Water Craft Prohibited

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun - Sat

No Wake Zone:  100 feet from shoreline except when a waterskier is leaving dock or shoreline

Timeshare:  Lake-wide No Wake Zone except Thursdays, Fridays, first and third Saturdays, second and forth Sundays of the month, national holidays, and three-day weekends resulting from national holidays.

Lower Neklasen Lake

 

Surface Area: 36 acres Maximum Depth: unknown

Mean Depth: less than 5 feet

All Motorized Water Craft Prohibited

Paradise Lake April 2007

Surface Area: 25 acres

Maximum Depth: 20 feet

Mean Depth: 5-10 feet

Electric motors only

Quiet Hours:  9 pm to 9am Sun - Sat.

Personal watercraft prohibited.

Maintain Current Access

Question Lake, Little Question Lake, Lake Five and Unnamed Lake

September 1998

 

 

Question Lake

 

 

Surface Area: 80 acres

Maximum Depth: unknown

Mean Depth: unknown

Horse Power Limit: 5

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Motor Vehicles prohibited during winter months when lake is frozen

Little Question Lake

 

Surface Area: 25 acres

Maximum Depth: unknown

Mean Depth: unknown

Non-motorized

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Motor Vehicles prohibited during winter months when lake is frozen

Lake Five and Unnamed Lake

 

Surface Area: unknown

Maximum Depth: unknown

Mean Depth: unknown

Non-motorized

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

All these lake allow for a special permit to exceed motor limits for building construction

Motor Vehicles prohibited during winter months when lake is frozen

Ice House Registration

Rainbow Lake

November 1995

Surface Area: 72.3 acres

Maximum Depth: Not Available

Mean Depth: Not Available

Horsepower Limit: 10

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Shirley Lake April 2006

Surface Area: 121 acres

Maximum Depth: 23 feet

Mean Depth: 14.1 feet

Personal Watercraft prohibited.

Quiet Hours: 10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

No Wake Zone: 100 feet from ordinary high water mark.

Stevens and Oriana Lakes

March 2007

 

 
Stevens Lake  

Surface Area: 95 acres

Maximum Depth: 30 feet

Horsepower limit: 10 on timeshare basis.
Personal watercraft ban.


Quiet Hours 10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

No Wake Zone: 100 feet from shoreline

Oriana Lake  

Surface Area: 9.37 acres

Maximum Depth: 25 feet

No motorized watercraft.
Sunbeam and Suncrest Lakes Not adopted

 

 

Three Mile Lake

November 2002

Surface Area: 119 acres

Maximum Depth: 15 feet

Mean Depth: 3.3 feet

Personal Watercraft prohibited.

Amphibious Vehicles prohibited.

Horsepower Limit: 10

Quiet Hours:

10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun - Sat

Toad Lake

September 1998

Surface Area: 50 acres

Maximum Depth: unknown

Mean Depth: 10 feet

Electric motors only

Twin Island Lake

July 1997

Surface Area: 151 acres

Maximum Depth: 61 feet

Mean Depth: 14.8 feet

Horsepower Limit: 10

Quiet Hours:

10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun - Thurs

11:00 pm - 8:00 am Fri - Sat

Walk-in only access

Walby Lake

September 1998

Surface Area: 54 acres

Maximum Depth: 18 feet

Mean Depth: 5.4 feet

Horsepower Limit: 10

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Motor Vehicles prohibited during winter months when lake is frozen

West Papoose Lake

August 1996

Surface Area: 212 acres

Maximum Depth: Not Available

Mean Depth: Not Available

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Quiet Hours:  11:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun - Sat

No Wake Zone: 100 feet from ordinary high water mark

Whiskey Lake

August 2004

Surface Area: 270 acres

Maximum Depth: 35 feet

Mean Depth: Unavailable

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

No Wake Zone: 150 feet from ordinary high water mark

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun - Sat

Motorized Watercraft Prohibited on portions of the inlet creek and outlet (Whiskey) creek.

Wolf Lake

July 1997

Surface Area: 62 acres

Maximum Depth: 17 feet

Mean Depth: 6.8 feet

Horsepower Limit: 6

Motor Vehicles prohibited during winter months when lake is frozen

Wolverine Lake

August 2004

Surface Area: 55 acres

Maximum Depth: 7 feet

Mean Depth: 2.2 feet

Personal Watercraft Prohibited

Quiet Hours:  10:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

Electric Motors Only

Commercial Floatplane Operations Prohibited

Morvro Lake

2007

Surface Area: 87 acres

Mean Depth: 11 feet

Maximum Depth: 17 feet

 

25 Horsepower limit

Quiet Hours:  11:00 pm - 8:00 am Sun. - Sat.

 

 

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 Motorized Uses on Lakes and Waterways (MSB 17.58)

Lake Adopted Regulations

Cottonwood Lake

1995

Mufflers, cowlings, exhaust systems

Quiet Hours: 11:00 pm - 8:00 am, Sun. - Sat.

No Wake Zone: 100 feet from shoreline

Special Events Permits

Finger Lake

1995

Mufflers, cowlings, exhaust systems

Quiet Hours: 11:00 pm - 8:00 am, Sun. - Sat.

No Wake Zone: 100 feet from shoreline

Special Events Permits

Wasilla Lake

1995

Mufflers, cowlings, exhaust systems

Quiet Hours: 11:00 pm - 8:00 am, Sun. - Sat.

No Wake Zone: 100 feet from shoreline

Special Events Permits

Cottonwood Creek

1995

Non-motorized.

 MSB 17.58

 




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