SIGURD OLSON ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE: Comprehensive Management Planning Project for Eureka Lake

Purpose

Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute is sponsoring a comprehensive lake monitoring and management planning project on Eureka Lake and East and West Twin Lakes. Activities include: aquatic plant, shoreland, water quality and quantity, and tributary loading monitoring; watershed mapping and modeling; sociological surveying; and planning with local stakeholders. The project includes regular public participation/engagement and education and outreach. All data collected, including lab results, must be entered into SWIMS. The final deliverable will be a comprehensive lake management plan. Water quality samples collected as part of this project will have analysis completed by the Applied Research and Environmental Laboratory at Northland College. The Department releases the project sponsor from condition #6 under Project Activities of the standard grant contract. The specific objectives, metrics, and deliverables for the listed activities are included in the application and supporting materials, and this scope is not intended to replace or supersede those documents.

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Lakes Grant
Large Scale Lake Planning
LPL-1556-15
2015
Complete
 
Reports and Documents
A plan for the long-term management of eleven lakes near the Penokee Iron range of Ashland and Iron Counties of Wisconsin. The eleven lakes are being considered as on system for the purposes of this management plan.
 
Activities & Recommendations
Grant Awarded
Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute is sponsoring a comprehensive lake monitoring and management planning project on Eureka Lake and East and West Twin Lakes. Activities include: aquatic plant, shoreland, water quality and quantity, and tributary loading monitoring; watershed mapping and modeling; sociological surveying; and planning with local stakeholders. The project includes regular public participation/engagement and education and outreach. All data collected, including lab results, must be entered into SWIMS. The final deliverable will be a comprehensive lake management plan. Water quality samples collected as part of this project will have analysis completed by the Applied Research and Environmental Laboratory at Northland College.
Shoreland Monitoring, Assessment, Inventory
Shoreland Monitoring, Assessment or Inventory
 
Watershed
 
Waters