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Introduction
The Upper St. Croix Watershed
Alliance was formed in 2006 by river and lake organizations in
the Upper St. Croix - Eau Claire Rivers Watershed to protect and
improve water quality and habitat within the watershed.
A series of monthly meetings was held from May through October 2006 to
better understand watershed-level issues and priorities, and to lay the
groundwork for a DNR Lake (Watershed) Protection Grant application.
During the winter of 2006-07, the grant application was drafted by
water scientists at UW-Stevens Point who are acting as consulting
partners to the Watershed Alliance. The purpose of the grant is to fund
watershed-level information gathering and analysis activities.
The Friends of the St. Croix Headwaters (FOTSCH), a qualified
Non-profit Conservation Organization (NCO), was selected to
submit and manage the DNR Lake Protection Grant application.
A public discussion of the grant application was held on March 21,
2007 and a review of volunteer match hours was held on April 21,
2007.
The Lake Protection grant application to provide funding for the 2008-10
period was
submitted to the DNR in late April 2007 and approved in late June 2007.
The grant-funded project is
"Creating regional watershed based groundwater, hydraulic, and nutrient
models for local-scale use in the Upper St Croix – Eau Claire Rivers
Watershed."
Project
goals and deliverables were updated in January 2008.
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