The Lake Puckaway Protection and Rehabilitation District announces a shoreland restoration program. This program will promote the establishment of natural vegetation buffers along the shores of Lake Puckaway to protect and restore water quality and fish and wildlife habitat. Buffers with native vegetation have deep roots that hold in the soil, preventing or slowing erosion. The plants offer cover and food for songbirds and other wildlife, while at the same time deterring Canada geese from using adjacent lawns. Buffers also intercept sediment and nutrients that can cloud the water and cause algal blooms.
The District will cost share ten pilot projects around the lake that will contain different types of plantings and erosion control elements. The grants will be competitive, based on the type of restoration and landowner commitment and match. The district will be taking applications through November 25th. Work should be completed by the end of the 2012 growing season. More information and applications are available on the district’s website www.lakepuckaway.com or by writing to Lake Puckaway Protection and Rehabilitation District, W591 Fox Ct., Montello, WI 53949
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Better use of funds would be some restoration of the dredge banks (Bring in more rock) or dredging the mouth of the river and removing that sediment on the East end of the lake. Every time you run a boat down there you churn mud.
ReplyDeleteAlso any native plants planted will be wiped out by the ice due to the winter draw down or high water in the spring
Just sayin...
The majority of native plantings will be on shore, where there will be little or no ice damage.
ReplyDeleteYour point on the dredge bank is well taken and boats plowing through the mud is detrimental to water quality and bottom living animals. However, both would be ten to a hundred times the cost of this shoreland restoration project.
The shoreland restorations will also help hold in the shoreline, and intercept silt before it reaches the lake. Although it is a small amount on system such as this, it is a part of preventing the rapid siltation of the dredge channels.
Yes, until the next homeowner decides to weed wack their shoreline :)
ReplyDeleteIm not trying to come off as negative I just know this lake pretty well and own shoreline property and I can tell you the ice is destructive and the high water comes every spring.
I'd rather see the money banked for some minor dredge work at the East mouth of the River or more rocks brought in to the center rock bank.