TOWANDA LAKE ASSOCIATION: Towanda Lake Management Planning

Towanda Lake Association is sponsoring a LPL grant to study Towanda Lake, in Vilas County. The project will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP).

Project activities include: 1) Stakeholder participation \2013 stakeholder survey, planning meetings (up to 2), kick-off meeting, and wrap-up meeting; 2) Water quality sampling and analysis; 3) Paleocore collection and analysis; 4) Watershed assessment and P load modeling; 5) Fisheries, Shoreline, and Coarse Woody Habitat assessment; 6) Professional Dreissena monitoring; 7) Aquatic plant surveys (PI survey, community mapping, and early-season AIS); 8) Data analysis; 9) Develop LMP.

Project deliverables include: 1) Stakeholder survey; 2) Water chemistry and paleocore data; 3) Watershed maps and modeling data; 4) PI, shoreland 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 LMP needs 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, paleocore sampling, shoreland assessment, woody habitat assessment, watershed assessment and water quality sampling, all maps from project, all GIS data, and aquatic plant vouchers.

Final Report and Products

• LPL 1674 18_Final Report_Towanda Appendices_June21 [PDF 6 MB]
• LPL 1674 18_Final Report_Towanda Vilas CompPlan_June21 [PDF 5 MB]