Near the Noel Street entrance to the park
About the Park
The History of the Park
In the 1840s, Benjamin Gervais founded the first privately-owned grist mill in Minnesota. Gervais Mill Park is located on the original site of this mill. Construction of this park and the ponds began in 1992 and was completed in 1994.Purpose of the Pond
The purpose of this project was to treat stormwater runoff before it empties into Lake Gervais. According to the RWMWD site, the ponds were "designed to work in tandem with the Owasso basin project to provide for removal of 60% of the phosphorus load from Ditch 16 into Lake Gervais."More Information
See the Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District's Gervais Mill Pond page for more information about the constuction and purpose of the site. This page contains a link to a PDF copy of the district's wetlands monitoring program "Wetland Health Chart" for the pond. See also the City of Little Canada's Gervais Mill Park page and the website of the Little Canada Historical Society. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources lake finder includes information about the ponds in a Lake Information Report.
