Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission Highlights and Accomplishments 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

✦ 2001 -- established innovative county-wide stormwater ✦ standards based on extensive 2010 - Yahara CLEAN report public and stakeholder input published in September ✦ ✦ 2003 -- established lake 2011 -- continued to expand ✦ 1992 -- completed Water property numbering system use of social media and web to deepen community ✦ 1988 - Dane County (WI) Quality Implementation Plan to speed emergency response based on public input and understanding and Executive Phelps and the ✦ expert testimony 2004 -- oversight of aquatic engagement on lakes and Dane County Board created plant harvesting program led watershed issues the Dane County Lakes and ✦ 1994 -- established county- to priority harvesting maps Watershed Commission wide wetlands protection and and improved public ✦ 2012 -- Commission innovative construction site communication recommendations in annual ✦ 1988 - Take a Stake in the erosion control standards water-related budget review Lakes cleanups began ✦ 2004 -- established ban on led to two new positions to unnecessary phosphorus in help implement CLEAN lawn fertilizer, which actions withstood legal challenges and became a model for ✦ 2012 -- created Yahara statewide legislation Watershed Initiatives Briefings to foster ✦ 1996 -- created a 200 foot ✦ 2005 -- created, with County collaboration among “slow-no-wake” zone on Executive Falk, a Manure watershed improvement Yahara chain of lakes to Spreading Task Force, activities increase safety and protect resulting in digester ______shorelines momentum and liquid ✦ 2013 -- celebrated FOR MORE INFORMATION: manure applications groundbreaking on second www.danewaters.com standards to reduce winter manure digester and www.takeastakeinthelakes.com runoff continued implementation of www.yaharaportal.org Commission and Executive’s ✦ www.myfairlakes.com 2008 -- engaged others to Manure Spreading Task Force create Yahara CLEAN --