LAKE ELLWOOD ASSOCIATION, INC: Lake Ellwood Management Planning Project

Lake Ellwood Association is sponsoring a LPL grant to study Lake Ellwood, in Florence County. The project will focus on updating a Lake Management Plan (LMP).

Project activities include: 1) Stakeholder participation \2013 stakeholder survey (analysis), planning meetings (up to 2), 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, acoustic, and substrate mapping); 6) Early and Late-season AIS surveys and EWM peak biomass survey; 7) Professional Dreissena monitoring; 8) Data analysis; 9) Develop annual AIS report and LMP.

Project deliverables include: 1) Stakeholder survey, news release(s), and newsletter article; 2) Water chemistry data; 3) Watershed maps and modeling data; 4) PI, shoreland, acoustic, and woody habitat data; 5) Aquatic plant community and AIS maps; 6) Aquatic plant vouchers; 7) LMP.

Specific conditions for this project: 1) Draft of stakeholder survey needs Dept review and approval; 2) Draft of annual AIS reports and LMP need 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, acoustic assessment, watershed assessment and water quality sampling, all maps from project, all GIS data, and aquatic plant vouchers.