Watershed Issues

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Watershed Issues

• Support
• Uninterrupted dredging of Maumee River and Bay
• Construction of Maumee River turning basin
• Efficient cost-effective management expansion
  of CDFs
• Sediment contaminant reduction from
  watercourses
• Beneficial use of dredged material
• Dredging of Ottawa River Harbor
• Wetland restoration throughout the basin
• Environmentally friendly flood control measures
• Preservation of Woodtick Peninsula
• Control of lotus beds on recreational boating

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Watershed Issues

• Concern Associated w/ Existing or New CDFs
• Impacts on fish wildlife, and loss of game and
  non-game fish spawning and habitat
• Water circulation sediment transport
• Aesthetics and future land uses
• Impacts From
• Toledo Wastewater Treatement Plant, CSOs and SSOs
• Large water withdrawals for power plants and
  irrigation
• Pesticide/herbicide runoff from conservation
  tillage practices

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Watershed Issues

• General Concern For
• Impacts and dynamics of Lake Erie coastal
  processes on navigation, flood control, shore
  erosion, and dredging
• Contaminated sediments, fish, and endangered
  species protection
• Maintenance of natural water re-circulation/connec
  tivity to maintain natural populations of Walleye
  and Perch that are not stocked
• Effects of lake levels on fisheries and nearshore
  wetlands

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What Are Your Watershed Issues and Concerns?
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Federal Activities in the Western Lake Erie Basin

• September 16, 2002

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Watershed Authorization

• WRDA 99, Sec. 441. W. Lake Erie Basin,Ohio,
  Indiana, Michigan
• . . . to improve flood control, navigation,
  water quality, recreation, and fish and wildlife
  habitat in a comprehensive manner . . . including
  watersheds of the Maumee, Ottawa, and Portage
  Rivers.

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Agencies
Flood Control / Drainage
Navigation
Water Quality
Mission Areas
Recreation
Fish Wildlife Habitat
Environmental Infrastructure
Shoreline Streambank Erosion Protection
Brownfields
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Flood Control/Drainage
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Navigation
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Water Quality
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Recreation Throughout Watershed
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Fish Wildlife Habitat
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Environmental Infrastructure
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Shoreline Streambank Erosion Protection
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Brownfields
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Mission Area Summary

• ImprovingWater Quality is a mission area shared
  by all the Federal agencies
• Multiple agencies address flood control,
  infrastructure, and erosion control
• Corps has the lead on navigation
• Fish Wildlife Habitat/Recreation is primarily
  the responsibility of the USFWS
• Brownfields authority is limited to USEPA

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Question and Answer Session

• Agency Representatives
• Steve Hindall, USGS
• Mary Knapp, USFWS
• Dan ORiordan, USEPA
• Paul DeArman, NRCS
• Chris Brayman, USACE

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Products From WRDA Sec 441

• Comprehensive Watershed Reconnaissance Study
  Report
• Project Management Plan which includes the Scope
  of Study for specifically authorized projects
  and/or Watershed Management Plan
• Recommendations may include feasibility phased
  studies for a watershed management study and
  specific projects

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Where Do We Go From Here?