The first RUSS unit was installed in Ice Lake, April 1998. The second RUSS unit, was deployed in Lake Independence for the first time on Friday, June 19, 1998. Our third unit was installed on Grindstone Lake, Friday, August 6, 1999. This RUSS was originally intended for Mille Lacs but a number of logistical concerns led us to a smaller lake. Grindstone has a number of characteristics that should be of interest to WOW. The fourth and fifth units are in Lake Minnetonka and are part of the Lake Access project. Visit the St. Louis River to learn about the site being considered for the sixth RUSS.

We added two new lakes to the project in 2001. The West Upper unit (Lake Minnetonka) was moved to Medicine Lake (near Plymouth, MN) as part of a community experiment to assess phoshorus runoff in an urban community. The Independence unit went north to Shagawa Lake in Ely, MN.