Windy Waters News
The Lake Waukewan and Lake Winona Watershed Restoration Plan, now 10 years old, will be revised in the near future thanks to a NHDES grant secured by the Town of Meredith and your local watershed water quality focused volunteer groups.
This Restoration Plan is the blueprint and backbone of our ongoing water quality monitoring, evaluation, preservation and mitigation efforts, in a long-term strategy to address current impairments in our lakes. The Plan focuses on ways we can reduce sediment runoff and nutrient loading inputs into our lake, and on ways to reduce sediment runoff and nutrient loading inputs into our water bodies. Everything and every place eventually drains down into the lake, and once in the lake it stays in the lake.
We anticipate beginning this lake-wide watershed review this Fall, extending into next Spring. The study will be conducted by Forest Bell Environmental, a premier environmental engineering firm with an extensive background and familiarity with Lake Waukewan and its environs. This is the environmental engineering firm who helped create the 2016 Restoration Plan and has managed several recent grant funded water quality testing and conservation efforts for us.
The success of these efforts depends on an on-going collaboration among state, local municipalities, business and conservation groups, neighborhood associations and now most importantly our local residents and private property owners.
As we assess our watershed, your understanding and involvement will be critical to our lake plan’s long term success. Our ability to identify and define sources of compromise to our lakes in a great part depends on your understanding and cooperation.
As we come closer to initiating the study, we will reach out with a more detailed communication, outlining our monitoring and participation efforts in greater detail.
Windy Waters Conservancy Board of Directors
This Restoration Plan is the blueprint and backbone of our ongoing water quality monitoring, evaluation, preservation and mitigation efforts, in a long-term strategy to address current impairments in our lakes. The Plan focuses on ways we can reduce sediment runoff and nutrient loading inputs into our lake, and on ways to reduce sediment runoff and nutrient loading inputs into our water bodies. Everything and every place eventually drains down into the lake, and once in the lake it stays in the lake.
We anticipate beginning this lake-wide watershed review this Fall, extending into next Spring. The study will be conducted by Forest Bell Environmental, a premier environmental engineering firm with an extensive background and familiarity with Lake Waukewan and its environs. This is the environmental engineering firm who helped create the 2016 Restoration Plan and has managed several recent grant funded water quality testing and conservation efforts for us.
The success of these efforts depends on an on-going collaboration among state, local municipalities, business and conservation groups, neighborhood associations and now most importantly our local residents and private property owners.
As we assess our watershed, your understanding and involvement will be critical to our lake plan’s long term success. Our ability to identify and define sources of compromise to our lakes in a great part depends on your understanding and cooperation.
As we come closer to initiating the study, we will reach out with a more detailed communication, outlining our monitoring and participation efforts in greater detail.
Windy Waters Conservancy Board of Directors