NFCRWD Subwatershed Assessment
There is one lake and three streams in the North Fork Crow River Watershed District impaired by excess nutrients and impaired biotic communities. The Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategies have identified large areas and subwatersheds that have the potential to contribute high pollutant loads to the streams and lakes throughout the watershed. This Subwatershed Assessment study will evaluate three high loading subwatershed catchments in the North Fork Crow River Watershed. This study will use finer-scaled models (such as PTMApp) and additional subwatershed analyses to develop prioritized maps and an itemized list of potential projects and practices with cost/benefit analyses, expected load reductions.
Annie Felix-Gerth
$6,000,000 the first year and $6,000,000 the second year are for targeted local resource protection and enhancement grants and statewide program enhancements for technical assistance, citizen and community outreach, and training and certification, as well as projects, practices, and programs that supplement or otherwise exceed current state standards for protection, enhancement, and restoration of water quality in lakes, rivers, and streams or that protect groundwater from degradation, including compliance.
The subwatershed assessment will identify the most effective locations for BMPs so that money and other resources can be focused on achieving the greatest load reductions and most bang for your buck BMPs rather than simply undertaking the cheapest, easies
Work was completed as per the approved work plan and this included the North Fork of the Crow River WD performed some watershed wide Geographic Information System (GIS) modeling to better understand the drainage flow patterns within their ditch system. The outcome of this Accelerated Implementation Grants (AIG) funding was a report and a GIS data layer that provided for elevation modeling within the affected portion of the watershed that will be used for later targeting of best management project installation.
LOCAL LEVERAGED FUNDS