Burt Lake, Little Carp River, Hasler Creek, Unnamed Creek of West Burt Lake Road, White Goose Creek, Douglas Lake, Lancaster Lake, Lancaster Creek, Larks Lake, Munro Lake, Burt Lake Watershed Certon Creek, Cold Creek, Cope Creek, Bessey Creek, Beaver Management Plan Tail Creek, Brush Creek, Maple River, East Branch Maple River, West Branch Maple River, Van Creek, Arnott Lake, Sherett Lake, Vincent Lake, Crooked Lake, Mud Lake (Emmet County), Pickerel Lake (Emmet County), Round Lake, Spring Lake, Iduna Creek, Weber Lake, Cedar Creek, Crooked River, McPhee Creek, Minnehaha Creek, West Branch Minnehaha Creek, Mud Creek, Oden Creek, Sanford Creek, Silver Creek, Silver Creek Pond, Berry Creek, Deer Creek, Allen Creek, Blackjack Creek, Bradley Creek, Barhite Lake, Berry Lake, Beebe Creek, Black Lake, Bows Lake, Fitzek Lake, Fleming Lake, Fulmer Lake, Heart Lake, Hoffman Lake, Kidney Lake, Clifford Lake, Lake Eighteen, Olund Lake, Reardon Lake, Standard Lake, Storey Lake, Woodin Lake, Mud Lake (Cheboygan County), Huffman Lake, Protecting the Water Resources of the Pickerel Lake (Otsego County), Silver Lake, Mossback Creek, Marl Burt Lake Watershed Creek, Pickerel Creek, Stewart Creek, Thumb Lake, Wildwood Lake, Club Stream, Sturgeon December 2016 River, West Branch 1 Sturgeon River Acknowledgements Thank you to Julia Kirkwood and Greg Goudy of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Nonpoint Source Program for their assistance with development of the Burt Lake Watershed Management Plan. Thank you to the Burt Lake Watershed Advisory Committee for their dedication to protecting the Burt Lake Watershed through watershed management planning and implementation. Financial assistance for this project was provided, in part, by a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s Nonpoint Source Program grant under Section 319 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Clean Water Act). Funding for the program is provided to the MDEQ from the United States Environmental Protection Agency for the implementation of nine-element watershed management plans. The Burt Lake Watershed Management Plan was prepared by: Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council 426 Bay St. Petoskey, MI 49770 www.watershedcouncil.org December 2016 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................. 2 Table of Contents...................................................................................................................... 3 Figures ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Tables .......................................................................................................................................... 9 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 11 The Burt Lake Watershed Advisory Committee .............................................................. 12 CHAPTER 1 ................................................................................................................................... 14 The Burt Lake Watershed ....................................................................................................... 14 Burt Lake Direct Drainage ......................................................................................................... 68 Burt Lake ............................................................................................................................... 69 Maple River Watershed ............................................................................................................. 75 Maple River .......................................................................................................................... 77 Munro Lake .......................................................................................................................... 82 Douglas Lake ....................................................................................................................... 83 Crooked River Watershed ......................................................................................................... 89 Spring and Mud Lakes ........................................................................................................ 93 Round Lake .......................................................................................................................... 93 Crooked and Pickerel Lakes .............................................................................................. 97 Crooked River .................................................................................................................... 101 Sturgeon River Watershed ....................................................................................................... 103 Sturgeon River .................................................................................................................... 109 Huffman Lake ..................................................................................................................... 110 Lance Lake ......................................................................................................................... 112 Wildwood Lake .................................................................................................................. 115 Silver Lake ........................................................................................................................... 118 CHAPTER 2 ................................................................................................................................. 119 State Water Quality Standards, Designated Uses and Desired Uses ............................. 119 State Water Quality Standards ........................................................................................ 120 Designated Uses ................................................................................................................ 122 CHAPTER 3 ................................................................................................................................. 125 Water Quality of the Burt Lake Watershed ........................................................................ 125 3 Water Quality of the Burt Lake Direct Drainage ........................................................... 130 Water Quality of the Maple River Watershed ............................................................... 134 Water Quality of the Crooked River Watershed ........................................................... 140 Water Quality of the Sturgeon River Watershed ........................................................... 145 CHAPTER 4 ................................................................................................................................. 151 Resource Inventories of the Burt Lake Watershed ........................................................... 151 Land Cover ........................................................................................................................ 152 Stormwater ......................................................................................................................... 155 Shoreline Surveys ............................................................................................................... 161 Road/Stream Crossing Inventories .................................................................................. 189 Agricultural Inventory ........................................................................................................ 197 Forestry Inventory .............................................................................................................. 206 Streambank Erosion Surveys ............................................................................................ 217 Tributary Monitoring .......................................................................................................... 232 CHAPTER 5 ................................................................................................................................. 237 Water Quality Threats ........................................................................................................... 237 Chapter 6................................................................................................................................... 242 Critical and Priority Areas ..................................................................................................... 242 Critical Areas ...................................................................................................................... 243 Priority Areas ....................................................................................................................... 245 Priority Parcel Analysis ....................................................................................................... 247 CHAPTER 7 ................................................................................................................................. 254 Goals and Objectives .......................................................................................................... 254 CHAPTER 8 ................................................................................................................................. 258 Implementation Steps .........................................................................................................