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DOOR COUNTY: Forestville Mill Pond Comprehensive Lake Management Plan

Door County Soil and Water Conservation Department is sponsoring a project to update the Forestville Millpond Lake Management plan.

Project final deliverables include: all data collected, agendas and minutes for planning meetings, and a river management plan that includes methodologies, results, and management alternatives discussion with an implementation plan.

Specific project activities include: 1) Inventory livestock operations, cropland practices, point and nonpoint sources of pollution and model pollutant loading in the watershed; 2) quantify and classify accumulated sediment deposits in the lake by conducting a bathymetric survey and sampling sediment cores in the millpond; 3) Monitor water quality of the Ahnapee River upstream of the millpond and in the millpond; 4) Incorporate fisheries data within the management plan; 5) Assessment of the current aquatic plant community; 6) Completion of stakeholders survey; 7) Public participation in the planning process; 8) Creation of an updated comprehensive lake management plan that includes an implementation strategy.

Special Conditions: 1) Draft sociological/user survey must be reviewed and approved by the Department before being initiated.

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 Rivers Biologist.

If consultant is to provide final report, it is recommended that Grantee provide DNR Rivers Coordinator with a draft for comment on report adequacy prior to making final payment to the consultant. DNR to receive both paper and electronic .pdf copies of the final report along with, or prior to submission of grantee's final payment request.

Project Type LAKE_GRANT - Large Scale Lake Planning
Project ID LPL162317
Year Started 2017
Status COMPLETE

Final Report and Products


People/Organizations Involved

  • Brian Forest