ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES & CHALLENGES

THE STORY OF LODI SPRING CREEK & CITY OF LODI WPDES P LIMITS KURT R. CALKINS DIRECTOR OF COLUMBIA COUNTY

THE WATERSHED-LODI SPRING CREEK

Spring Creek located on border of Columbia County/Dane County Flows northwest through Lodi Marsh to City of Lodi and then to Lake Wisconsin (303d) Class II brown trout stream Impacts from NPS (sediment/nutrient/loading) Stormwater Concerns City of Lodi Watershed 28,000 acres approximately 18,000 Acres cropland City of Lodi 3000 population

 28,813 acres Primary land use agriculture forest developed

SETTING THE STAGE FOR ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION

NR 102 Water Quality Standards/Targets

Streams .075 mg/L Rivers .10mg/L Reservoirs/lakes .005 to .007mg/L

Lodi Spring Creek at .08-.076mg/L so limit would be .075mg/L Currently at .8mg/l

WISCONSINS NEW PHOSPHORUS RULE

Water Quality Based Limits Why?

Water quality suffering under historic rules changes deemed necessary Maintain or restore aquatic environment, recreational uses, tourism Prevention of algal blooms, toxic algae, algal mats, odor, low dissolved oxygen

NEW WPDES PERMIT CHALLENGES FOR CITY OF LODI

New water-quality based limits for point sources are often more than ten-times lower than historic limits To achieve limits at treatment facilities, costly upgrades would be needed. NR217 contains provisions for compliance using watershed-based approaches instead of upgrades
Adaptive Management Water Quality Trading

WHAT WOULD UPGRADE COST

MSA completed preliminary review 2012

Estimated about 4.2 million plant upgrade Estimated Adaptive Management costs $2.7 million not including outside funding

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Overview and Timeline pieces here

HOW OUR WORLDS CAME TOGETHER

2007 City of Lodi Stormwater Utility Study ? Watershed Impacts us or them LWCD set up to work with Friends of Scenic Lodi Valley to start answering some questions about stream quality and watershed impacts LWCD Land & Water Plan Priorities (NR 151) Future Work Planning DNR TRM Grants

THE START OF WATER QUALITY MONITORING

2008 DNR River Planning Grant Friends Group 2010 -2012 Additional DNR River Planning Grants By Columbia County LWCD Answer question about watershed conditions pre and post City of Lodi Help LWCD gain more water quality/watershed NPS data to help focus Columbia County Land & Water Resource Management Plan implementation and help people understand current conditions of watershed

SAMPLE SITES

Five sample sites placed to evaluate influence of subwatersheds and Lodi

FLOW/RATING CURVES/DISCHARGE

Instantaneous flow
flow meters and staff gauges Every other week (April 2010-November 2012)

Continuous flow using Solinst level loggers

FIELD DATA

Specific conductance Temperature Dissolved oxygen pH Staff gauge reading Discharge

LAB ANALYSES

Lab Chemistry

chloride (Cl-) total phosphorus (TP) dissolved reactive phosphorus (DRP) nitrate (NO2+NO3-N) ammonium (NH4+) total kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) total suspended solids (TSS)

WHAT WE LEARNED FROM WATER SAMPLING

Median concentration of stream is .08-.076mg/L 2012 drought base flow conditions 4 of 5 sites at or below .075 mg/l target Animal waste runoff issues

LSO3

Boxplot of TP (May 1st - October 31st)

250

High TP, CL Nitrate/Nitrite (Indicators of Animal Waste) Low TSS

200
TP (ug/L)

150

100 75 50
Year Site Name 2011 2012 LS01 2011 2012 LS02 2011 2012 LS03 2011 2012 LS04 2011 2012 LS05

WATERSHED NR 151 INVENTORY

2009-2010

LWCD Utilized DNR River Planning Grant To Conduct NR 151 Inventory of Agricultural Watershed

Meeting T Nutrient Management Plans PI Direct Runoff From Feedlots Cattle Access/Streams Manure Storage/Stacks SWQMA Clean Water diversions

WHAT WE FOUND VIA INVENTORY

69 livestock operations in total

42 livestock operations have runoff issues (1500 to 2480 lbs P) 55 operations not aware of having a NMP 590 plan (Meeting T?) 60 operations did not have manure storage\

Lots of opportunity for conservation BMPs

 MSA Professional Services, Inc.

Parameter

Liquid Dairy Manure 14,000 3,800 800

Liquid Swine Manure 28,000 4,600 1,600

Silage

Municipal Raw Wastewate r 220 40 8

BOD (mg/L) TN (mg/L) TP (mg/L)

12,000 90,000 1,500 8,100 300 600

Source: Fleming and Ford, 2001

WE HAVE DEFINED OPPORTUNITIES NOW

WHAT ABOUT CHALLENGES

Timeframes/Workload 10 year window realistic? Legacy P In system $ resources/risk/reward Access to staff resources/time/local priorities Long Term BMP tracking at parcel scale Accounting and P load reduction models

BARNY (actually delivery) SNAP PLUS (field Scale, no before, implementation) APLE (no what if BMP installed)

NEXT STEPS FOR OUR PROJECT

Commitment by Dane and Columbia County LWCD to begin more detailed site inventory work in 2014 Public awareness kickoff outreach meeting July 2013 local fair/mailings/etc Data collected will be used for large scale TRM grant applications for 2015 Final Adaptive Management Plan developed and submitted Fall of 2015 by MSA/City of Lodi

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