Program Notes from the Sep 29, 2009 Meeting of LKWA
September 29, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Milton Township Hall
- Call to order and welcome – Susan Yates, Vice-Chair
- Approval of minutes of August Picnic meeting as Emailed
- Treasurer’s report: approved
- Sightings around the lake – none brought up
- Old Business
- The pre-proposal for the Cooperative Weed Management area was approved so we now will submit a full application. No promises but a step in the right direction.
- Betsy Riley, the graduate student who did plant surveys in several of our wetlands this summer (Shearer, Duesterbeck, Seyer, Shackelford, Hevey, Mud Lake and the Koshkonong Wildlife Area) finished her work and is very grateful to the members. She will report her findings to us at a spring meeting. This will be an interesting follow-up to the flood effects.
- No news on the legal proceedings regarding lake levels.
- New business
- Next meeting October 27, 2009 6:00 pm Milton Township Hall. Program: Stephen Russell, Army Corps of Engineers – planning for Lake Koshkonong.
We discussed the clarification of the Law Re: Open Water Hunting. It allows hunting in emergent Living vegetation if 50% of the craft is covered on any side. They may not be touching the shore or shooting over the land or it would be considered trespassing. Concerns? Call Warden Dave Walls in Jefferson at 920-262 9508 or Ryan Allison - office number 920 674-5880
Meeting adjourned at 6:20 PM.
Gary Farnham of the Lake Sinnissippi Improvement District was our guest. He discussed the efforts of his group to remove bottom sediment from the lake by a method know as geo tubes. They conducted studies funded by government grants to do mapping and engineering studies to determine the extent and content of materials within the watershed. They are also working with the Army Corps of Engineers. They have already constructed one geo tube from bottom sediment and have used it to protect a shallow bay from carp and wave erosion. They have determined from the study they have about 10 million cubic yards of sediment. Some of the sediment will need to be placed in uplands which requires cooperation from those owners. Cost of removal is about $10 per cubic yard meaning a $10 million cost to remove all sediment. The cost for their one geo tube was $45,000 for about 760 feet in length.