1. LAKE PROTECTION GRANTS Eligible Activities State Stats. 281.69 (3)
Land Acquisition & Easements - $200,000
Wetland & Shoreland Restoration - $100,000
Local Ordinance Development - $50,000
Activities in an Approved Plan - $200,000
Lake Classification - $50,000

2. Shoreline Habitat Restoration
Up to $100,000
Min. requirements for full financial assistance 35ft deep on 70% of lot per NR 115
3 layers of vegetation
Perpetual deed
$250 incentive payment
Can include erosion & runoff control
Grants can be just for technical assistance (planning & design)
Technical Standard 643a
“Shoreland Habitat”

3. How Shorelands are Regulated Minimum lot sizes Structure setbacks
Lake
200’
View
corridor
How Shorelands
are Regulated
35’
Buffer
Buffer
75’ from OHWM
Minimum lot sizes
Structure setbacks
Vegetative Cutting
Filling/grading
Nonconforming uses
limited
House
Conserve
Conservation accepts that change or development happens and seeks to minimize loss, retain some functions while accepting some overall loss.
Regulations are the main tool here
NR 115
70/30/35, setbacks
Mitigation
Chap 30
Wetland laws
100’

4. Why a Deed Restriction? Public funds invested in private property.
Public funds invested in private property.
Shouldn’t be paying landowners to comply with shoreland zoning ordinances
Zoning is not protective and can change
Landowners will change and “undo” the restoration
NR 115 relationship is strong
buffer was visionary as a multi function min
with no thought to on site water management – research show water is chanelled through the unbuffered VAC
Anticipated septic replacement in the setback well-they thought we would get smarter
We are – we know a lot more

5. Opportunities Under Plan Implementation
Planning Grants are available to monitor and assess shoreline condition and put it in a management plan.
Three-tiered Monitoring Approach
Identify the 3-10 things every riparian and lake organization should do on their property to protect their lakes.
Enhance Shoreland Vegetation
Control Runoff
Etc.
Make it easy for them to do that.
Immediate Reward for Lake Planning
If you have a management plan that has a goal to “X”
We have a package that’s like a menu at some restaurants where you check you selection and toppings, drink etc and complete your own bill that you submit to the waitress. Complete the check box. You have a checking account to do good things.
We can always add to the menu
Keep permanent conservation as the gold standard

6. The Menu Administration Promotion and Recognition Technical Assistance
Ordering and distributing plants and materials
Site visits and sketch plans
Installation/certification
Shoreland Plants
Shoreland plantings w/in 35 ft
Other plantings
Runoff Management
Rain Gardens
Permeable Paving
Removing impervious surface, structures in 35 ft.
Infiltration pits and trenches
Side yard buffers
Gulley and erosion repair
Other runoff management
In-lake habitat
Fish stix
Aquatic plantings
Capped at some percentage (10? 25?) of total project costs(Burying drain tile from downspouts to disperse water underground and redirect to, side yard swale or rain garden
Spreaders and energy dissipaters to convert concentrated flow to sheet flow
Adding gutters and downspouts or reconfiguring them to move water discharges to a better location
Rain barrels After Surface overland flow ($ sq/ft)
Clean water diversions – diverting and dispersing overland flow away from the lake into side and rear yards with small berms and swales
Water bars across paths and slope to break up and disperse concentrated flow
diverting or breaking up concentrated flow, seed and re-vegetate bare exposed soil
Minimizing and mitigating impervious surfaces ($ 15? sq/ft)
Replacing impervious surface with porous paving blocks
Remove and dispose of structures and concrete
Coupons for local nurseries, DNR nursery, group buys Coupons for local nurseries, DNR nursery, group buys

7. Shoreland Stewardship Initiative
Incentivize and remove barriers for better shoreland management
Streamlined Incentives (grants)
Education Outreach Campaign
Contractor and Staffing Training
Recognition?
Why?
Take on larger NPS watershed issues we have to have our (glass) house in order Walk the talk for our bigger challenges
Forget about regulation saving the day – support it, make it work, show examples
Nonpoint source is death by a thousand cuts
Healed only by a thousand actions
Opportunities Life on the Edge
DNR funding through workplanning
Staff Training – Roll out $ w/ Pat’s Guide – Counties as service provider

8. THE CHALLENGE What will work, what won’t
What messages, who best to deliver
How do we put what you learned into practice?
Does it have to be uniform?
Money isn’t a barrier
Technology isn’t a barrier
Dec 2014 – Consolidated grant application
$ isn’t really the barrier, right? We have the $ and the tech. but we need the customers. So how do we do that?