Lakeshore Natural Resources Partnership (LNRP) is sponsoring a project to begin implementing their 2017 Carstens Lake Comprehensive Management Plan to improve water quality in the Carstens Lake watershed located in the Town of Newton, Manitowoc County. Project final deliverables include: 1) all design plans and a final report summarizing the project; 2) Copy of the recorded contract between grantee and property owner. Specific project activities include: 1) Develop a concept plan for an off-line sedimentation basin adjacent to Pine Creek upstream of Carstens Lake; 2) Design the sedimentation basin per agreed upon concept; 3) Develop an operation and maintenance plan, between grantee and land owner, to be approved before signed and recorded; 4) Construct the sedimentation basin; 5) Install a perennial vegetated buffer adjacent to the sedimentation basin; 6) Conduct an aquatic plant survey and develop a report with aquatic plant management recommendations for Carstens Lake.