2016 Year End Summary of Red Cedar River Watershed Partnership Highlights and Accomplishments

Abstract

In January of 2016, “A River Runs Through Us: A Water Quality Strategy for the Land and Waters of the Red Cedar River Basin” was approved by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and by the US Environmental Protection Agency, after being submitted in July of 2015. In the year since the Strategy was approved, the Red Cedar River Water Quality Partnership (authors of the Strategy and also tasked with implementing it) has worked toward many of the goals of the Strategy. What follows is a brief summary of some of the major accomplishments and events that have occurred thanks to the work of the Partnership and its individual members. This list is by no means comprehensive, as many smaller events, activities, installation of best management practices, presentations, etc., have taken place as well…some likely unknown to the Partnership, initiated by other organizations or residents.