Little Comfort Lake Phosphorus Reduction Implementation
The proposed project addresses phosphorus reductions to Little Comfort Lake, a 36-acre impaired lake that is hydrologically connected to Comfort Lake. While the phosphorus improvements of this project are directly for Little Comfort Lake, it also reduces phosphorus to Comfort Lake. The proposed projects include implementation of a variable height weir to impound water in a large wetland complex, a series of beaver dam analogs along the School Lake outlet channel to Little Comfort Lake, and an in-lake alum treatment. These projects are expected to remove 80 pounds/year of phosphorus loads from the east wetland impoundment, 60 pounds/yr of phosphorus from the School Lake outlet channel improvements, and 56 pounds/yr of phsophorus from the in-lake alum treatment. This is a total load reduction of 206 pounds/yr which will achieve the remaining reductions needed for Comfort Lake to a be removed from the impaired waters list.
Annie Felix-Gerth
(Projects and Practices)(b) $16,000,000 the first year and $16,000,000 the second year are for grants to local government units to protect and restore surface water and drinking water; to keep water on the land; to protect, enhance, and restore water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams; and to protect groundwater and drinking water, including feedlot water quality and subsurface sewage treatment system projects and stream bank, stream channel, shoreline restoration, and ravine stabilization projects. The projects must use practices demonstrated to be effective, be of long-lasting public benefit, include a match, and be consistent with total maximum daily load (TMDL) implementation plans, watershed restoration and protection strategies (WRAPS), or local water management plans or their equivalents. A portion of this money may be used to seek administrative efficiencies through shared resources by multiple local governmental units. Up to 20 percent of this appropriation is available for land-treatment projects and practices that benefit drinking water.
Remove total phosphorus loads to Little Comfort Lake of 206 lb/yr (or 90% of the remaining load reductions needed for Little Comfort Lake to achieve the state water quality standard of 40 ug/L predicted in the lake water quality response model).
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS