SILVER LAKE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: Silver Lake 2025-2026 EWM Monitoring & Management

The Silver Lake Preservation Association is sponsoring a project to continue EWM management through targeted herbicide treatments, DASH, and monitoring.

Activities:

1) Qualitative EWM monitoring

2) Aquatic plant Sub PI surveys pre, post, and 1 year after

3) Whole Lake aquatic plant PI survey 2026

4) Herbicide concentration monitoring

5) DASH work

6) ProcellaCOR herbicide treatment

7) Pretreatment confirmation and refinement surveys

8) Annual reporting 2025-2026

Deliverables:

1) Qualitative survey data and mapping

2) Aquatic plant Sub PI data

3) Herbicide Concentration monitoring data

4) Dash harvest reporting

5) Annual reporting

Conditions:

1) Point intercept surveys shall follow Recommended Baseline Monitoring of Aquatic Plants in Wisconsin: Sampling Design, Field and Laboratory Procedures, Data Entry and Analysis, and Applications, publication number PUB-SS-1068 2010. Submit electronic point intercept data to DNRBaselineAquaticPlants@wisconsin.gov

2) All monitoring shall follow DNR protocols.

This scope summarizes details provided in the application and does not negate tasks and/or deliverables described therein. Data, reports, surveys, and supporting information, including photos, maps and GIS data, must be submitted to the DNR Biologist in electronic format and in any other format they specify.

If a consultant provides a final report, it is recommended that the Grantee provide the DNR Biologist with a draft for comment on report adequacy prior to making a final payment to the consultant. Include electronic copy of the final report along with or prior to submission of grantee's final payment request.

See Special Condition B below.