East Side Lake

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East Side Lake
In winter. Picture taken from the Oakland Avenue bridge over Dobbins Creek looking north-northeast.
Location	Austin, Minnesota
Lake type	reservoir
Primary outflows	Dobbins Creek
Basin countries	United States

East Side Lake is a 40 acres (16.19 ha) man-made lake in Austin, Minnesota in western Mower County^[1], which is in the southeast part of the state. It is one of two man-made lakes in Mower County (the other is Lake Louise), which is one of only four counties in Minnesota without a natural lake.

[edit] Dobbins Creek

The lake's only tributary and only outflow is Dobbins Creek, which starts in Red Rock Township and flows through Nicolville. As reported in the Star Tribune [1], untreated sewage (including feces) from Nicolville is dumped into Dobbins Creek a mere three miles (5 km) upstream from East Side Lake. Fecal bacteria have been measured at up to 11 times the level allowed in surface water by state law.