Tens of thousands of Hoosiers have fond memories of Spring Mill Lake. The problem is sediment behind the dam has filled the lake, making it very shallow and fostering massive vegetation and algae explosions in the summer.
Most visitors think it is a plant and algae problem, but it is a sediment problem.
Park managers are due to receive the Spring Mill Lake report in June. After that, the Ind. Dept. of Natural Resources' Division of Parks and Reservoirs will decide the lake's fate. The lake would fill in and eventually become land. Shrink the size of the lake by removing only some of the sediment. Construction of the lake began in 1935 and ended in 1937.