PHILLIPS CHAIN O'LAKES ASSOC: Phillips Chain of Lakes Management Planning

The Phillips Chain of Lakes Association is sponsoring an AEPP grant to study the Phillips Chain of Lakes in Price County, with a study completion date of December 31, 2021. The project will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP).

Activities:

1) Stakeholder participation \2013 stakeholder survey, planning meetings (up to 2), kick-off meeting, and wrap-up meeting

2) Water quality sampling and analysis

3) Watershed assessment and P load modeling

4) Fisheries, Shoreline, and Coarse Woody Habitat assessment

5) Aquatic plant surveys (PI survey, community mapping, and early-season AIS)

6) Early and late-season AIS surveys on Little Star Lake

7) Data analysis

8) Develop LMP

Project deliverables include:

1) Stakeholder survey

2) Water chemistry data

3) Watershed maps and modeling data

4) PI, shoreland and woody habitat data

5) Aquatic plant community and AIS maps

6) Aquatic plant vouchers

7) LMP

Specific project conditions:

- Draft of stakeholder survey needs Dept review and approval

- Draft of LMP\2019s needs Dept review and approval

WDNR Lakes Management Coordinator will be provided with an electronic (pdf or word) copy of LMP, stakeholder survey, data from PI survey, shoreland assessment, woody habitat assessment, watershed assessment and water quality sampling, all maps from project, and all GIS data.

Final Report and Products

• AEPP 584 19_CompMgmtPlan_PhillpsChain_12092021 [PDF 10 MB]
• AEPP 584 19_CompMgmtPlan_PhillpsChain_Appendices_12092021 [PDF 9 MB]