OSPREY LAKE POA: 2023-24 Osprey Lake EWM Management Project

Osprey Lake Property Owners Association is sponsoring a project to implement approved activities from their aquatic plant management plan. Activities include Eurasian watermilfoil control, purple loosestrife biocontrol, and water quality monitoring.

Project final deliverables include:

1) EWM management and required treatment permit reporting

2) Purple loosestrife biocontrol and associated data

3) Data from EWM bed mapping

4) Data from volunteer AIS surveys in SWIMS database

5) Herbicide concentration results in SWIMS

6) Water quality data in SWIMS

7) Annual and final AIS monitoring and control strategy reports

Specific project activities include:

1) EWM control with herbicide treatment, DASH, and hand pulling

2) Purple loosestrife biocontrol beetle rearing station development and release of beetles

3) Annual late summer EWM bed mapping

4) AIS identification training and volunteer AIS surveys

5) Herbicide concentration monitoring and analysis

6) Water quality data collection

7) General project communications

8) Annual and final AIS strategy assessment reports summarizing EWM management and monitoring during project and future EWM management direction.

Special Conditions: DNR is to receive copies of the final report along with, or prior to submission of grantee's final payment request. It is recommended that Grantee provide DNR Lake Coordinator with a draft of the final report for comment on report adequacy prior to making final payment to the consultant.

It is strongly recommended that an annual management strategy meeting be held each winter with DNR to discuss EWM management for the next year before aquatic plant management permit applications are submitted.

This scope summarizes the project detail provided in the application and does not negate tasks/deliverables described therein. Data, records, and reports, including GIS-based maps, and digital images, must be submitted to the Department in a format specified by the regional Lake Biologist.