Wedge Creek Habitat Restoration and Enhancement

Shell Rock River Watershed District (SRRWD) established a stream restoration program in 2010. The program includes restoration and enhancement of in-stream, riparian fish and wildlife habitat in the Shell Rock River Watershed. The SRRWD has completed the Wedge Creek Stream Habitat Restoration Plan for a 1.95 mile reach of Wedge Creek, a tributary watershed that discharges into Fountain and Albert Lea Lakes in the City of Albert Lea. The project is divided into six individual reaches in accordance stream morphology. The watershed district is requesting funding for restoration of reach #1 (2,500 Linear Feet) and #5 (2,500 Linear Feet). The entire 36-acre restoration project is part of a program designed to: reduce stream bank erosion and associated sedimentation, reconnect streams to their floodplains to reduce negative impacts from severe flooding, increase natural reproduction of fish and other aquatic organisms and stabilize stream banks with minimal maintenance.