Watershed Management

NORTH AMERICAN LAKE NONPROFIT ORG. MANAGEMENT SOCIETY US POSTAGE 1315 E. Tenth Street PAID Bloomington, IN 47405-1701 Bloomington, IN Permit No. 171 Watershed Management Watershed L L INE Volume 36, No. 3 • Fall 2016 Fall • 3 No. 36, Volume AKE A publication of the North American Lake Management Society Society Management Lake American North the of publication A AKE INE Contents L L Published quarterly by the North American Lake Management Society (NALMS) as a medium for exchange and communication among all those Volume 36, No. 3 / Fall 2016 interested in lake management. Points of view expressed and products advertised herein do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of 2 From the Editor / To the Editor NALMS or its Affiliates. Mention of trade names and commercial products shall not constitute 3 From the President an endorsement of their use. All rights reserved. Standard postage is paid at Bloomington, IN and additional mailing offices. Watershed Management NALMS Officers President 5 BMPs for Protecting or Restoring Phosphorus-Impaired Lakes Julie Chambers Immediate Past-President 10 Sebago Lake, Maine, and the Water Quality Index Reed Green 19 Engaging Individuals to Make Big Changes in the Upper President-Elect Tippecanoe R. Watershed Frank Wilhelm Secretary 25 Solving Water Quality Problems via Voluntary, Incentive- Sara Peel Based Programs Treasurer Michael Perry 30 Grassroots Conservation in Turkey Creek, LA NALMS Regional Directors Region 1 Wendy Gendron 34 Climate Variability Influences Cyanobacteria in Region 2 Kiyoko Yokota Shallow Florida Lakes Region 3 Nicki Bellezza Region 4 Diane Lauritsen Region 5 Melissa Clark 39 Affiliate News Region 6 Brad Hufhines Region 7 George Antoniou 40 Student Corner Region 8 Mike Eytel Region 9 Todd Tietjen 44 Literature Search Region 10 Shannon Brattebo Region 11 Anna DeSellas Region 12 John-Mark Davies At-Large Vacant Student At-Large Ted Harris LakeLine Staff Editor: William W. Jones Advertising Manager: Philip Forsberg Production: Parchment Farm Productions Printed by: Metropolitan Printing Service Inc. ISSN 0734-7978 ©2016 North American Lake Management Society 4510 Regent Street Suite 2B Madison, WI 53705 (All changes of address should go here.) Permission granted to reprint with credit. Address all editorial inquiries to: William Jones 1305 East Richland Drive Bloomington, IN 47408 Advertisers Index Tel: 812/334-3485 [email protected] Aquarius Systems, Inc. 4 Address all advertising inquiries to: In-Situ, Inc. 9 Philip Forsberg NALMS On the cover: Medora 18 PO Box 7276 Boulder, CO 80306-7276 2015 NALMS Photography Contest Nufarm IBC Tel: 303/800-6680 Editor’s Choice Award winner – “Lundy PhycoTech 4 Fax: 608/233-3186 [email protected] Canyon” by Jeff Spence SePRO IFC Fall 2016 / NALMS • LAKELINE 1 From Bill Jones the Editor LakeLine encourages letters to the editor. t seemed fitting to me that we should Success Stories” can be accessed online Do you have a lake-related question? Or, follow up our summer LakeLine that at: https://www.epa.gov/polluted-runoff- have you read something in LakeLine Ifeatured “Shoreline Management” with nonpoint-source-pollution/nonpoint- that stimulates your interest? We’d love the theme of this fall source-success-stories. We present two to hear from you via e-mail, telephone, or issue – “Watershed of these non-phosphorus success stories Management.” postal letter. here. Watershed Pond Creek, in north central management, of divide the watershed into subwatersheds, Oklahoma is probably typical of many course, encompasses evaluate and rank each subwatershed, and creeks in the Central Plains area. the lake, its assess the relative importance of each to Oklahoma’s 303(d) list showed it shoreline, and the the water quality of Sebago Lake. Their impaired for E. coli and it also suffers land area that drains comprehensive approach will inspire high turbidity and low dissolved oxygen. into it. Admittedly this makes for a very you. Those managing Lake Tippecanoe Shannon Phillips and her colleagues at broad theme and, to narrow it down a bit, in rural, northern Indiana had a similar the Oklahoma Conservation Commission we will focus on land or drainage areas situation – large lake, large watershed, and their partners with the Oklahoma outside of the immediate lake vicinity in and many upstream lakes and streams Conservation Partnership worked this issue. contributing to the lake’s water quality with landowners to save their precious When we think about lake decline. Sara Peel and Lyn Crighton topsoil and, in turn, improve water management and watershed management, tell us a story about what committed, quality in Pond Creek so that it now the focus is often nutrient, especially enlightened, informed, and persistent meets all assessed beneficial uses. In phosphorus, management. But partners can accomplish when led by Louisiana, Turkey Creek, in a largely watershed management is much more enthusiastic, science-based leaders. agricultural watershed wasn’t fully than phosphorus control. Watershed Over the past 18 years, more than 300 supporting the water quality standard management plans have been developed individual water quality improvement for contact recreation use nor for to manage problems associated with projects have been identified with 100 designated use of fish and wildlife due E. coli, sediments, toxins, temperature, implemented throughout Lake Tippe’s to high total dissolved solids and fecal low dissolved oxygen, and many other watershed. coliform bacteria. With a federal-state- pollutants. We’ll address several of these Through the Section 319 Nonpoint local partnership delivering targeted in this issue of LakeLine. Source program, USEPA has funded conservation technical and financial We lead off this exploration of projects on many primarily nonpoint assistance, Turkey Creek now meets water watershed management with Dick source-impaired waterbodies where quality goals. Theron Phillips, Michael Osgood, who, as many know, has strong restoration efforts have led to documented opinions about what works and doesn’t water quality improvements. These “NPS (from the Editor, continued on p. 3 . ) work to restore phosphorus-impaired lakes. Lucky for us, Dick also has a wealth of experience in this area and in To the Editor: his article, he describes three watershed The last issue of LakeLine focusing on shoreline management was one of the best in a long time. management cases having varying Kudos to the editor and authors for providing a compelling case for shoreline management. I offer degrees of success and effort. Sebago one critique: It seems that in the majority of cases, shoreline management is heavily subsidized. Lake is a huge, deep lake that is the I understand why this is important, especially when trying to engender a new ethic, however, it would be useful to get an idea of the costs involved. Also useful would be the development of source of drinking water for one-sixth of metrics to better document and demonstrate the benefits of sound shoreline management. As Maine’s population. With a 450-square- this is a developing field, NALMS (and others) should encourage research and the adoption of this mile watershed, where do you begin to new ethic. protect it? If you are Paul Thomas Hunt, Kate McDonald, and Kirsten Ness, you Dick Osgood, CLM 2 Fall 2016 / NALMS • LAKELINE From Julie Chambers the President ow, this yearPhosphorus has flown by! recycling When and between Membership, aquatic the progress sediment never and lake water I started my term as President slowed and we kept charging on. (from the Editor, continued from p. 2 . ) Wlast November, I told my family At the first of the year we submitted Schooler, and Faran Dietz describe the and friends that this comments as part of the White House successful process. would likely be the Water Summit, two of which were NALMS and LakeLine have been fastest year of my accepted! With this we beefed up our focused on problems associated with life. It has proven presence on social media and put out press cyanobacteria for many years. So when to be just that and releases to share on the large stage what Karl Havens sent me an article written I can’t believe that NALMS is working on. Both standing with co-authors Mark Hoyer, Edward I’m writing the final and ad hoc committees have been busy Phlips, and Akaepot Srifa describing LakeLine article of this year, from updating outdated policies their research on how climate variability my term. This year and procedures to developing ideas for influences cyanobacteria blooms in three has been both exciting and busy. Now that a student “how to” video series and large nutrient-rich Florida lakes, I had to my term at the helm is quickly coming streamlining the CLM/CLP application publish it. They make a compelling, well- to an end, I thought it would be a good process. Another big accomplishment this documented case. time to share some of the highlights of the year has been the submittal of information In our “Student Corner,” Edward things we were able to accomplish. for the 501(c)3 status to the IRS. This Kwietniewski writes about his Master’s Many of the Past Presidents were able is one of the many steps to finalize our work on New York’s Rushford Lake. The to join us at last year’s annual meeting incorporation in Wisconsin. lake association has used an extreme fall in Saratoga. As the incoming officer, I As I look back over the year I am drawdown to enhance flows to downstream found this to be a great opportunity to not so pleased to have had the honor to hydroelectric dams and to prevent winter only meet some folks I hadn’t met before, serve as NALMS’ President. It’s truly damage to the dam. However, brittle naiad but to listen and gain insight from their amazing how much work goes on behind has gained a foothold in the lake as a experiences.

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