TOWN OF WASHINGTON: Butternut & Franklin Lakes Limnological Baseline Studies & APM Plans
The Town of Washington is sponsoring a large scale lake planning grant to study Butternut and Franklin Lakes in Forest County with a study completion date of June 30, 2008. The Town of Lincoln, Town of Cloverland, City of Eagle River, and Butternut-Franklin Lake Foundation 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 each lake 4) Aquatic plant community mapping and analysis 5) Water quality sampling - secchi, P, Chla, and DO through citizen lake monitor and Temp during aquatic plant sampling 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 each lake (one set for lake group and second for Dept) 4) Water quality sampling results 5) APM Plans
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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-1132-07
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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