TOWANDA LAKE ASSOCIATION: Towanda Lake Management Planning
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Purpose

Towanda Lake Association is sponsoring a LPL grant to study Towanda Lake, in Vilas County. The project will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP). Project activities include: 1) Stakeholder participation \2013 stakeholder survey, planning meetings (up to 2), kick-off meeting, and wrap-up meeting; 2) Water quality sampling and analysis; 3) Paleocore collection and analysis; 4) Watershed assessment and P load modeling; 5) Fisheries, Shoreline, and Coarse Woody Habitat assessment; 6) Professional Dreissena monitoring; 7) Aquatic plant surveys (PI survey, community mapping, and early-season AIS); 8) Data analysis; 9) Develop LMP. Project deliverables include: 1) Stakeholder survey; 2) Water chemistry and paleocore data; 3) Watershed maps and modeling data; 4) PI, shoreland and woody habitat data; 5) Aquatic plant community and AIS maps; 6) Aquatic plant vouchers; 7) LMP. Specific conditions for this project: 1) Draft of stakeholder survey needs Dept review and approval; 2) Draft of LMP needs Dept review and approval. WDNR Lakes Management Coordinator will be provided with an electronic (pdf or word) copy of LMP, stakeholder survey, data from PI survey, paleocore sampling, shoreland assessment, woody habitat assessment, watershed assessment and water quality sampling, all maps from project, all GIS data, and aquatic plant vouchers.

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Lakes Grant
Large Scale Lake Planning
LPL167418
2018
Complete
 
Reports and Documents
LPL 1674 18_Final Report_Towanda Appendices_June21
Comprehensive Plan Appendices for Towanda Lake
LPL 1674 18_Final Report_Towanda Vilas CompPlan_June21
Comprehensive Management Plan for Towanda Lake
 
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Towanda Lake Association is sponsoring a LPL grant to study Towanda Lake, in Vilas County. The project will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP). Project activities include: 1) Stakeholder participation - stakeholder survey, planning meetings (up to 2), kick-off meeting, and wrap-up meeting; 2) Water quality sampling and analysis; 3) Paleocore collection and analysis; 4) Watershed assessment and P load modeling; 5) Fisheries, Shoreline, and Coarse Woody Habitat assessment; 6) Professional Dreissena monitoring; 7) Aquatic plant surveys (PI survey, community mapping, and early-season AIS); 8) Data analysis; 9) Develop LMP.
 
Watershed
Upper Tomahawk River
 
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Towanda Lake
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