Where Form Meets Function: A Practical Approach to Replicating Streambank Inventories to Reach a Wider Audience
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2024Metadata
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"The Lake Winnebago watershed has been a source of significant nutrient loading for decades. WDNR has developed a TMDL targeting nutrient within the watershed. GEI developed new methods to assess streambank erosion and calculate loading intended for replication by future stakeholders. The new methods were developed in collaboration with WDNR and combine principles from NRCS and the Rosgen Stream Classification systems. The goal was to create a series of standard operating procedures that could be easily repeated in any HUC12 watershed by diverse stakeholder groups such as conservation clubs, non-profits or local governments. A series of weighted overlay models were created to classify erosion potential. Model results were used in site selection of ~12% of the total watershed stream miles to then be surveyed. Field efforts mapped streambank erosion, assessed habitat quality, and locations of invasive species. Data collected from these representative stream reaches were then extrapolated across the watershed to determine nutrient loading for each watershed as a whole.
Presenter: Gabe Heindel, GEI Consultants"
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Extension Lakes
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"The Lake Winnebago watershed has been a source of significant nutrient loading for decades. WDNR has developed a TMDL targeting nutrient within the watershed. GEI developed new methods to assess streambank erosion and calculate loading intended for replication by future stakeholders. The new methods were developed in collaboration with WDNR and combine principles from NRCS and the Rosgen Stream Classification systems. The goal was to create a series of standard operating procedures that could be easily repeated in any HUC12 watershed by diverse stakeholder groups such as conservation clubs, non-profits or local governments. A series of weighted overlay models were created to classify erosion potential. Model results were used in site selection of ~12% of the total watershed stream miles to then be surveyed. Field efforts mapped streambank erosion, assessed habitat quality, and locations of invasive species. Data collected from these representative stream reaches were then extrapolated across the watershed to determine nutrient loading for each watershed as a whole.
Presenter: Gabe Heindel, GEI Consultants"