DANE COUNTY: German Valley North

Purpose

Installation of streambank restoration/protection practices, to include: Riprap, rock weirs, shaping & seeding, critical area stabilization, and lunkers along approximately 14,000 feet of German Valley Creek north of grantee's 2004 project.

Objective

At Kahl Farm: mitigate animal waste runoff pollutant, to prevent further fish kills, and reduce annual phosphorus loading to stream. At Holmes Farm: stream stabilization of

Outcome

John Kahl farm: redesigning the stream channel, adding a cattle crossing, and filter strip. Holmes farm: Stream rip-rap.

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NPS Grant
Targeted Runoff - Rural Construction
SP05-13000-05B
2005
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Grant Awarded
Runoff Grant - Targeted Runoff Rural
Control Streambank Erosion
German Valley Creek Middle - Installation of streambank restoration and protection practices. Each stream has had major rehabilitation of the watershed and stream corridor. The water quality objective of the project was to reduce stream bank erosion by 90% resulting in an overall reduction of sediment load of over 7300 tons/year over the whole area of the project. In all, almost 50,000 feet of stream bank was shaped and stabilized, and over 600 fish habitat structures (LUNKERS and weirs) were added to the stream.
 
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