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Department of Natural Resources

WI Lake & River Partnership

Watershed Planning & Management Assistance

How do we work better, together?

Carroll Schaal, Section Chief

Dr. Alison Mikulyuk, Lakes & Rivers Team Leader1


Why manage at the scale of waterbodies?

Why manage at the scale of watersheds?

A Watershed Approach


Four Big Threats

• Eutrophication

• Habitat Loss

• Aquatic Invasive Species

• Climate Change

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Future development Septic, animals Road constructionImpervious surface

Vegetation removalBoater & dock movement

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Turtle-Flambeau watershed

• Sandy soil, numerous kettle lakes

• 247 square miles

• 10,000 lake acres

• 44,000 wetland acres

• Nine outstanding/exceptional waters

Landscape

• 1/2 forested

• 1/3 wetlands

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Protection

Restoration

Protection

Restoration

Midwest glacial lakes conservation planner

Echo Lake


Turtle River Stewardship Area• Major lakes are in good shape

• Depth helps

• Mercury is only impairment

• Wetland & forest landcover

• Mostly private land

• Lakes have small drainages

• Most development is in this “riparian ring”

• Spider and Long seem to be increasing in P.

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Once we delineate a watershed…inventory:Stressors or problems

• Land use

• Erosion areas

• Shoreland development Septic Systems

• Point Pollution sources

• Boat Landings

Management opportunities:

Perm. land protection

Shoreline restoration

Wetland management

Forestry management

CBCW

Social capacity:

Can we do this?

Who can do

this?

Low phosphorus loading

e.g. Spider Lake →

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https://dnrmaps.wi.gov/H5/?viewer=WI_TMDL

Watershed reports: Wisconsin DNR Watershed Restoration Viewer

Focus on:Shoreline workPermanent land protection

https://dnrmaps.wi.gov/H5/?viewer=WI_TMDL


Best management practices for water quality

• Target nutrient hotspots

• Active erosion / gullying

• Livestock and other animal facilities

• Create “sinks” to park nutrients

• Riparian buffers

• Rain gardens

• Settling ponds

• Permanent land protection

• Watershed & shoreline

What should we do?


Rain gardens, runoff diversion

Healthy Lakes & Rivers


Best management practices for AIS

• Prevention & Education

• Clean Boats, Clean Waters

• Population assessment

• Data to support decision-making

• Early response (new populations)

• Containment

• Control

What should we do?


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Helps communities protect and improve

waterbodies,

by supporting surface water management,

from start to finish

The surface water grant program


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(1) Education & Planning projects help communities understand surface water conditions, determine management goals, and develop strategic management plans

(2) Management projects protect and improve water quality and aquatic habitat and prevent and control aquatic invasive species (AIS).

Education

Planning

County Lake Grants

Surface Water Management

Land Acquisition

AIS Control

Lake Monitoring & Protection

Contracts


Scalable projects for watershed management

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Education,

Capacity

Healthy Lakes

& Rivers

Surface Water

Restoration

Comprehensive

Management

Planning

Implementation

• BMPs, Protection

• AIS Control


Scalable projects for watershed management

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Education & capacitySpread the wordTraining & skill developmentOrganization, membership, relationships

& Rivers

Healthy Lakes & RiversBest practices for landownersFish sticks, diversions, native plantings, rain gardens, infiltration

Surface water restorationMedium-scale BMPs

Comprehensive management planningLake, river, watershed, APM plans

Management plan implementationShovel-ready implementation projectsAIS control

Education

Healthy Lakes

Surface Water Restoration

Early detection & response

All possible without a plan!


Surface water restoration grants

• Critical area stabilization

• Diversions

• Filter strips

• Grade stabilization structures on

artificial or non-navigable streams,

channels and gullies

• Riparian buffers

• Shoreline protection w/ revegetation,

soil bioengineering, erosion control

• Within 35 feet of the ordinary high

water mark:

• Waterbars

• Sediment and water basins

• Pervious pavement

• Rain gardens

• Vegetation planting

• Urban pollution and runoff control

• Impervious area removal

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Education

Healthy Lakes

Surface Water Restoration

Comprehensive Mgt Planning

AIS Control,Mgt Plan Implementation


County Lake Projects - $50K Max

• Only Counties may apply

• Purpose: protect water quality and lake ecosystems.

• Activities

• Update and improve County lake information

• Classify / categorize lakes in need of protection (work with DNR Healthy

Waters program)

• Describe lakes and needed protection activities in Lake & Water Plan

• Apply for funds to implement

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Spring – Summer 2020 Fall 2020 and on

• AIS

• Baseline population data

• Use to develop management strategy

• Work with DNR AIS specialist

• AIS, Protection & Restoration

• Comprehensive Management Plan

• Implementation

• County Lake Grant?

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Directed Lakes

EDR for pioneering populations

Prepare to plan

Comprehensive Management Planning

Needs and solutions

Implementation


Steps to securing a grant

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There are around 6 major steps to getting a grant:Here we’ll review the first two, which are important to get you started.


Step 1: Determine eligibility

• Submit eligibility application to your environmental grant specialist

• Jill Sunderland; [email protected]; 715-635-4167

• Six months before grant deadline

• MAY 1, 2020

• LINK

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https://dnr.wi.gov/aid/surfacewater.html


Step 2: Develop project

• Notify your local biologist you intend to apply by October 1

• Lakes: Keven Gauthier; [email protected]; 715-356-5211 x214

• Streams: Jon Kleist; [email protected]; 715-762-1344

• AIS: Carol Warden: [email protected]

• Share a brief summary of your project plan

• Your biologist will determine if a follow-up meeting is required

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mailto:[email protected]




Build capacity

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• Lakes Leaders Institute• Other programing at UWEX-Lakes• County Land & Water

County Lake Projects• Countywide Lake Associations• Regional Planning Commissions• Tribes• Consultants and contractors

How do we do the work?


Helpful websites• Lakes https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/lakes/

• Show a lake profile

• UWEX https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/UWEXLakes/Pages/default.aspx

• Information there capacity help with org

• Lake Leaders

• Grants https://dnr.wi.gov/aid/surfacewater.html

• Where to go for grant info

• Org application

• Handout available

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https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/lakes/

https://www.uwsp.edu/cnr-ap/UWEXLakes/Pages/default.aspx

https://dnr.wi.gov/aid/surfacewater.html


Afternoon discussion : Planning

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