Dummy Lake's Aquatic Plant Management Plan Approval.

The Dummy Lakes Management District (DLMD) was formed in 1983 to address resource management concerns on Big Dummy and Little Dummy Lakes (The Lakes). The Management District has been active in a number of lake management activities on The Lakes including aquatic plant management, invasive species monitoring and control, habitat improvements, boat landing monitoring and community education activities. DLMD contracted Flambeau Engineering, LLC to develop an aquatic plant management (APM) Plan update for Dummy Lakes. The Dummy Lakes APM Plan includes a review of available lake information, an aquatic plant survey, water quality evaluation and an evaluation of feasible physical, mechanical, biological and chemical aquatic plant management alternatives if deemed appropriate.

This report is a summary of the results from a full lake, point intercept method aquatic macrophyte survey completed in 2013 on Big Dummy Lake and Little Dummy Lake, Barron County Wisconsin. Big Dummy and Little Dummy Lakes are connected by a short channel.

Dummy Lakes Management District is sponsoring a project to develop an aquatic plant management (APM) plan including public participation / meetings. The final deliverables include agendas and minutes for planning meetings, an APM plan that includes methodologies, results, and management alternatives discussion with an implementation plan. Specific project tasks include: 1) Shoreline inventory and restoration planning; 2) Watershed land use assessment & loadings; 3) Identify runoff patterns & delineate environmentally sensitive areas in the watershed; 4) Aquatic Plant survey; 5) Watercraft inspection; 6) WILMS lake condition response modeling; 7) Review of institutional programs & regulations; 8) APM plan development.

Dummy Lakes Management District is sponsoring a project to develop an aquatic plant management (APM) plan including public participation / meetings. The final deliverables include agendas and minutes for planning meetings, an APM plan that includes methodologies, results, and management alternatives discussion with an implementation plan.