Project Detail

FROG & BASS LAKE ASSOC, INC: Frog & Bass Lake Management Planning Project

Purpose

Frog and Bass Lake Association, Inc. is sponsoring an AEPP grant to study Frog and Bass Lakes, in Florence County. The project will focus on developing a Lake Management Plan (LMP) for Frog and Bass Lake. Completion of a LMP will allow for potential Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) cost sharing grants and permits for Eurasian water-milfoil (EWM) control. Project activities include: 1) Stakeholder participation \2013 kick-off meeting, AIS training, stakeholder survey, planning meetings (up to 2), wrap-up meeting, news release, and newsletter article; 2) Annual volunteer AIS monitoring; 3) Water quality sampling (Secchi, P, Chla, N, Conductivity, pH, Calcium, DO, and temp); 4) Curly-leaf pondweed (CLP) survey and aquatic plant community mapping; 5) Pre/post treatment monitoring and residual sampling; 6) Shoreline assessment; 7) Fisheries assessment; 8) Watershed assessment and P load modeling; 9) Professional Dreissena monitoring; 10) Develop LMP. Project deliverables include: 1) Stakeholder survey, news release, and newsletter article; 2) Aquatic plant community, shoreland and watershed maps; 3) Completed entry of monitoring Forms 3200-124 onto Dept website; 4) Water quality, residual monitoring and P modeling data; 5) LMP. Specific conditions for this project: 1) Draft of stakeholder survey should be submitted to Lakes Management Coordinator for review before sending to public; 2) LMP needs Dept review and approval. WDNR Lakes Management Coordinator will be provided with an electronic (pdf or word) and hard copy of LMP, stakeholder survey, news release, newsletter article, data and P modeling from watershed assessment, all GIS data, and all maps from project.

Project Type

Aquatic Invasives Grant

Project Sub Type

Aquatic Invasives Education

Project ID

AEPP-235-10

Year Started

2010

Status

Complete

Reports and Documents

Frog and Bass Lakes Comprehensive Management Plan Appendicies