Pike River Plan: A Guide to Restoring and Protecting Watershed Health - Nine Key Element Plan
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Purpose

Pike River Future’s mission is to realize a long-term vision for a healthy watershed, provide stewardship, and educate citizens. The group’s primary goal is to educate while building partnerships for projects to improve water quality, restoring wetlands, prairies, and other natural features for future generations. Today, much of the land has undergone or is in the process of development. Agriculture is by far the dominant land use, comprising 39% of the watershed. Residential use captures another 19% while open space amounts to 11%, and transportation makes up nearly another 10%.

Objective

Goal A: Foster engagement and provide opportunities for stewardship of our watershed. Goal B: Improve surface water quality and groundwater resources to achieve DNR/EPA water quality standards. Goal C: Identify, enhance and protect important natural areas and provide open space for appropriate Goal D: Reduce existing structural flood damage and ameliorate potential flooding where flooding threatens structures and infrastructure. Goal E: Improve aquatic and terrestrial habitat to encourage diverse, resilient ecosystems. Goal F: Increase communication and coordination among municipal decision-makers, business and agricultural communities and other stakeholders within the watershed.

Outcome

The Pike River Watershed Plan includes an “Action Plan” developed to provide stakeholders with recommendations to address plan goals. The Action Plan includes both programmatic recommendations recommendations are general watershed-wide remedial, preventative, and regulatory actions. Site where projects can be implemented to improve surface and groundwater quality, green infrastructure, and aquatic and terrestrial habitats.

Study Design

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Pike River Future’s mission is to realize a long-term vision for a healthy watershed, provide stewardship, and educate citizens. The group’s primary goal is to educate while building partnerships for projects to improve water quality, restoring wetlands, prairies, and other natural features for future generations. Today, much of the land has undergone or is in the process of development. Agriculture is by far the dominant land use, comprising 39% of the watershed. Residential use captures another 19% while open space amounts to 11%, and transportation makes up nearly another 10%. http://www.rootpikewin.org/pike-river-plan
 
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