Second Phase of Lake Minnetonka Sonar Survey Gets Green Light
After finding 75 objects potentially made by humans, Maritime Heritage Minnesota will be back at work this spring.
Lake Minnetonka will become the first body of water in Minnesota to have entirely undergone a remote-sensing survey to locate submerged cultural resources. Maritime Heritage Minnesota has been awarded a grant for completion of the second phase of a sonar survey to locate maritime and nautical archaeological sites on the bottom of Lake Minnetonka. Results of the project's first phase, which surveyed lower Lake Minnetonka and Crystal Bay in the upper lake, revealed several new wreck sites and 75 annomolies that may represent human-made objects. Click here to download the full report. The second phase of the project will complete the survey of the upper portion of the lake. Work will likely commence in early May, according to Maritime …
