Meadow Lake Management Plan
Meadow Lake is listed as an impaired water for excess nutrients and suffers from nuisance levels of curly-leaf pondweed and fathead minnows. Reducing watershed phosphorus loading to the lake has been a priority and many practices have been installed; however, internal phosphorus loading to the lake is still significant and preventing improvement in the lake?s condition. In this project, internal phosphorus loading to Meadow Lake will be reduced by approximately 110 pounds per year through a lake drawdown and two aluminum sulfate treatments. This application is for water quality, sediment, fish, and submersed aquatic vegetation monitoring following a whole-lake draw down in Fall 2020 and two doses of aluminum sulfate treatment to control phosphorus release from lake sediments. Other outcomes of the project include increased water clarity, reduced chlorophyll-a concentrations, and a diverse native aquatic vegetation community.
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.
Reduce internal P loading
Improve water clarity and chl-a concentrations to meet the NCHF shallow lake standard
Eliminate the fathead minnows
Reduce curly-leaf pondweed density and restore native vegetation community
Consolidate lake sediments
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS