2022 - Lake Superior North Watershed WBIF

Partners will work together on protection and restoration strategies within the Lake Superior North Watershed to benefit soil and water quality. Partners will be completing projects that will provide the long-term benefit of protection of Lake Superior through completion of a phased shoreline erosion project along the coastal area, providing shoreline education and outreach, treating stormwater for sediment, nutrients, and quantities, inventory wetlands for better protection, and inventory and evaluate restoration projects along the Lake Superior Coastal area.
With this funding, the Administration responsiblities will be completed on time, including annual reporting. Planning and inventory efforts will lead to a review and update of the Lake Superior North Watershed Plan, completion of a phase of a coastal erosion map with 140 miles of Lake Superior Shoreline digitized, and a the development of a City of Silver Bay Stormwater Plan. Reduction of sediment, e-coli and slowing water quantity will take place within the watershed through stormwater practices and bank erosion projects, reducing an estimated 82 tons/year of sediment from entering into Lake Superior. Education and outreach is estimated to reach 100 landowners through a series of workshops on shoreline erosion. Within Lake County, a database of delineated wetlands will be completed. Also within Lake County, an assessment of Lake Superior coastal shoreline restoration will be identified and evaluated to inform future decisions for restoration efforts. The Lake Superior North Plan will be updated through a series of meetings.