PLANNING REPORT NO. 44 A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FORTHE DES PLAINES RIVER WATERSHED Part Three Appendices S O U T H E A S T E R N W I S C O N S I N R E G I O N A L P L A N N I N G C O M M I S S I O N SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION DES PLAINES RIVER WATERSHED COMMITTEE KENOSHA COUNTY RACINE COUNTY George E. Melcher . Director of Planning Chairman and Development, Kenosha County LeonT. Dreger Richard A. Hansen, Thomas J. Gorlinski Secretary Sheila M. Siegler Jean M. Jacobson Philip C. Evenson. Executive Director, SEWRPC James E. Moyer Secretary MILWAUKEE COUNTY WALWORTH COUNTY Nancy C. Braker . Director of Science and Stewardship, The Nature Conservancy Daniel J. Diliberti Anthony F. Balestrieri William R. Drew, Gregory L. Holden Vice Chairman Allen L. Morrison David C. Buehn. President, Village of Paddock Lake Linda J. Seemeyer John F. Burke . Manager, Halter Wildlife Area OZAUKEE COUNTY WASHINGTON COUNTY Robert A. Brooks Kenneth F. Miller James D’Antuono. Illinois Fox BasinTeam Leader, Thomas H. Buestrin, Daniel S. Schmidt Wisconsin Department Chairman Peter D. Ziegler, of Natural Resources Gus W. Wirth, Jr. Treasurer Wayne Eide . Chairman,Town of Bristol WAUKESHA COUNTY Duane H. Bluemke Carol J. Fischer. Chairman,Town of Somers Kenneth C. Herro Paul G. Vrakas Raymond A. Forgianni, Jr. Director, City Development, City of Kenosha Virgil Gentz . Chairman,Town of Paris Ronald L. Johnson. Chairman, Kenosha County Land Conservation Committee; Kenosha County Board Supervisor Wayne E. Koessl . Representative, SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN REGIONAL WISPARK Corporation PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF Ward S. Miller . Executive Director, Philip C. Evenson,AICP . Executive Director Lake County Stormwater Management Commission Kenneth R.Yunker, PE. Deputy Director Douglas J. Noble . Supervisor, Kenosha County Nancy M.Anderson,AICP . Chief Community Board of Supervisors Assistance Planner Robert E. Beglinger. Chief Transportation Engineer Michael R. Pollocoff. Administrator, Village of Pleasant Prairie Robert P.Biebel, PE, PH. Chief Environmental Engineer Arnold L. Clement . Planning and Development Leland H. Kreblin, RLS. Chief Planning Illustrator Director, Racine County ElizabethA. Larsen . Business Manager Phil H. Sander . Member, Des Plaines Wetland John G. McDougall. Geographic Information Conservancy, Inc. Systems Manager Edward St. Peter . General Manager, John R. Meland . Chief Economic Development Planner Kenosha Water Utility Donald M. Reed . Chief Biologist RonaldThomas. Executive Director, William J. Stauber,AICP . Chief Land Use Planner Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission Special acknowledgment is due Dr. Kurt W. Bauer, PE, RLS, AICP, Executive Director Emeritus, and Mr. Michael G. Hahn, PE, and Special acknowledgment is due Mr. O. Fred Nelson, retired General Mr. Ronald J. Printz, PE, Principal Engineers, for their efforts in Manager of the KenoshaWater Utility, who served on the Committee the conduct of this study and the preparation of this report. during much of the planning process. PLANNING REPORT NUMBER 44 A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE DES PLAINES RIVER WATERSHED Part Three of Three Parts Appendices Prepared by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission P.O. Box 1607 W239 N1812 Rockwood Drive Waukesha, Wisconsin 53187-1607 June 2003 Inside Region $25.00 Outside Region $50.00 Appendix A DES PLAINES RIVER WATERSHED COMMITTEE George E. Melcher, Chairman...........................................Director of Planning and Development, Kenosha County Philip C. Evenson, Secretary........................................................................................Executive Director, SEWRPC Nancy C. Braker ...................................................... Director of Science and Stewardship, The Nature Conservancy David C. Buehn ................................................................................................... President, Village of Paddock Lake John F. Burke ..............................................................................................................Manager, Halter Wildlife Area James D’Antuono ..................................................................................................... Illinois Fox Basin Team Leader, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wayne Eide .......................................................................................................................Chairman, Town of Bristol Carol J. Fischer................................................................................................................ Chairman, Town of Somers Raymond A. Forgianni, Jr. ..................................................................Director, City Development, City of Kenosha Virgil Gentz......................................................................................................................... Chairman, Town of Paris Ronald L. Johnson........................................................ Chairman, Kenosha County Land Conservation Committee; Kenosha County Board Supervisor Wayne E. Koessl ..........................................................................................Representative, WISPARK Corporation Ward S. Miller.......................................... Executive Director, Lake County Stormwater Management Commission Douglas J. Noble .........................................................................Supervisor, Kenosha County Board of Supervisors Michael R. Pollocoff ................................................................................. Administrator, Village of Pleasant Prairie Arnold L. Clement.................................................................... Planning and Development Director, Racine County Phil H. Sander................................................................................ Member, Des Plaines Wetland Conservancy, Inc. Edward St. Peter .........................................................................................General Manager, Kenosha Water Utility Ronald Thomas....................................................... Executive Director, Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission 699 Appendix B FINDINGS OF FISH SURVEYS CONDUCTED IN THE DES PLAINES RIVER WATERSHED INTRODUCTION This Appendix presents, in summary form, the findings of the fish surveys conducted in the streams and lakes of the Des Plaines River watershed from 1906 through 1994. Retrospective collection data for the Des Plaines River are set forth in Table 24 in Chapter III of this report. Figures B-1 through B-5 display historical collection data for major tributaries. Tables B-1 through B-4, and B-7 present similar data for minor tributaries and lakes respectively. Map 25 in Chapter III shows the location of the 1994 Regional Planning Commission fish survey sampling sites. Table B-5 presents a site-by-site summary of the results of the 1994 fish survey conducted by Regional Planning Commission staff. Comparisons of the findings of the fish surveys conducted from 1906 through 1994 are presented in Table 27 in Chapter III. This appendix was prepared with the assistance of Mr. Marlin P. Johnson, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Center, a consultant to the Regional Planning Commission. HISTORIC SURVEYS IN STREAMS The earliest recorded fish collection in the Des Plaines River watershed was June 27, 1906. A single collection by Dr. George Wagner, a professor in the Zoology Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was made on the Salem Branch of Brighton Creek, probably at what is now the STH 50 crossing. A total of 12 species were collected. As to pollution ranking, there were two intolerant, three tolerant, and seven very tolerant species. The year 1906 is the only record of rock bass in the river system, but the species has been reported present in George and Hooker Lakes in 1959 and in Paddock Lake in 1959, 1970, and 1974. Hooker and Paddock Lakes are at the headwaters of the Salem Branch, two miles upstream from the collection site, and may have been the source of the species. Rock bass are intolerant of silt and turbid water, which may account for the current absence of this species in the river system. The next collection was made August 28, 1928, on the Des Plaines River main stem, also at what is now the STH 50 bridge crossing. Twenty species of fish were collected, including five intolerant, nine tolerant, and six very tolerant species. This collection represents the last record of four intolerant species, weed shiner, creek chubsucker, longear sunfish, and least darter, in the main stem or tributaries, although the least darter was reported in a 1979 Paddock Lake collection. The 1906 and 1928 surveys provide the only available appraisal of the early native fish population in the Des Plaines River watershed. The disappearance of the five intolerant species is indicative of habitat changes brought on by human activity in the watershed. In the 37 years following 1928, no collections were reported for the Des Plaines River system. In the mid-1960s Mr. Marlin P. Johnson, then a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, conducted two surveys three years apart at six stations. Twenty-four species were found in the combined 1965 and 1968 collections. Four intolerant, 10 tolerant, and ten very tolerant species were reported. The 1968 collection of redfin shiner at the STH 50 and CTH MB crossings of the Des Plaines River (river miles 122.3 and 119.3, respectively) 1 represents the latest report of the presence in the watershed of this now State-classified