SHISHEBOGAMA & GUNLOCK LAKE ASSOCIATION, INC: Shishebogama & Gunlock Lake Management Planning Project, Phase 1

Shishebogama and Gunlock Lake Association is sponsoring phased large scale lake planning grants to study Shishebogama and Gunlock Lake's in Oneida County with a study completion date of June 30, 2011. The project will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP) for Shishebogama and Gunlock Lake's.

Project activities include: 1) Stakeholder participation - kick-off meeting, AIS training, stakeholder survey, planning meetings (up to 2), wrap-up meeting, news release, newsletter article, and progress report; 2) Recruit volunteers and implement a CB/CW program; 3) Annual volunteer AIS monitoring; 4) Water quality sampling and analysis (Secchi, P, Chla, DO, temp, N, conductivity, pH, total Alk, total suspended solids, and calcium); 5) Point-intercept (PI) aquatic plant survey, analysis and community mapping; 6) Curly-leaf pondweed (CLP) assessment; 7) Fisheries assessment; 8) Watershed assessment and P load modeling; 9) Zebra mussel monitoring; 10) Sensitive area delineation; 11) Develop LMP.

Project deliverables for phase 1 includes: 1) Stakeholder survey, news release, newsletter article, and progress report; 2) Watershed maps; 3) Completed entry of inspection Forms 3200-120 and monitoring Forms 3200-124 onto Dept website; 4) PI, water quality and P modeling data.

Specific conditions for this project: 1) Draft of stakeholder survey should be submitted to Lakes Management Coordinator for review before sending to public.

WDNR Lakes Management Coordinator will be provided with an electronic (pdf or word) and hard copy of LMP, news release, newsletter article, progress report, stakeholder survey, PI data, data and modeling from watershed assessment, all maps from project, all GIS data, and a set of aquatic plant vouchers.

Activities

• Comprehensive Planning Studies

People/Organizations Involved

• Shishebogama & Gunlock Lake Association