TOWN OF WASHINGTON: Upper & Lower Ninemile Lake Limnological Baseline Studies & APM Plan
The Town of Washington is sponsoring a large scale lake planning grant to study Upper and Lower Ninemile Lakes in Vilas County with a study completion date of June 30, 2008. The Town of Lincoln, Town of Cloverland, and City of Eagle River, are project partners. The project will focus on developing an Aquatic Plant Management (APM) Plan for each lake. Project activities include: 1) Data review, project kick-off meeting and project final meeting 2) Develop public questionnaire and prepare educational article 3) Point-intercept (PI) survey of aquatic plants with 2 sets of pressed plants from Lower Ninemile Lake 4) Aquatic plant community mapping and analysis 5) Water quality sampling - secchi, P, Chla, DO, and Temp during survey period 6) Watershed and land use analysis 7) Develop APM Plans Project deliverables include: 1) Public questionnaire and educational article 2) PI data and aquatic plant community and watershed maps 3) 2 sets of pressed aquatic plants from Lower Ninemile Lake (one set for lake group and second for Dept) 4) Water quality sampling results 5) APM Plans
Project Type
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LAKE_GRANT
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Large Scale Lake Planning
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Project ID
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LPL-1139-07
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Year Started
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2006
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Status
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COMPLETE
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Activities
- Comprehensive Planning Studies
Final Report and Products