YLLP DOCUMENTS
Yahara CLEAN Final Report, September 9, 2010
A CLEAN Future for the Yahara Lakes: Solutions for Tomorrow, Starting Today
Yahara CLEAN MOU
The Yahara Capital Lakes Environmental Assessment and Needs (CLEAN) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is an agreement between Dane County, the City of Madison, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. These four organizations agreed to undertake six activities to improve water quality in the Yahara Lakes. YLLP works with other agencies to pursue these Yahara CLEAN goals.
Progress Report, 12-23-08
What nutrients and sediments flow into the lakes and where do they come from? How can we decrease this pollution in order to improve water quality? What causes bacterial outbreaks at beaches on our lakes? In February 2008, Dane County, the City of Madison, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection agreed to look for answers to these questions.
YLLP Handout
A concise handout with the background and mission of YLLP.
Outcomes from "A Clean Future for the Yahara Lakes: Solutions for Tomorrow, Starting Today"
From the 10/10/2008 Yahara Lakes Conference held at Monona Terrace in Madison, WI. Four concurrent sessions were held at the conference: Community Actions and Partnerships; Green Land, Clean Water: Opportunities in Manure Management; Mud and Crud: Reducing Urban and Rural Sediment and Nutrient Runoff; and Beach CSI: Investigating and Controlling Potential Pollution Sources.
Portion of "Strategic Analysis and Recommendations"
Members of the YLLP Coordinating and Visioning Committee assembled to think through the criteria they might use to evaluate various options for a successor organization.
Results from "Goals, Strategies, Tactics" Workshop
The workshop involved more than 30 people from a wide variety of organizations who met to generate possible answers to 2 questions: "What do you think the Yahara Lakes should look like 30 years from now" and "What should be done to achieve these goals for the Yahara Lakes?"
Report to Lakes & Watershed Commission, May 2009
Report from YLLP/Yahara CLEAN to Lakes & Watershed Commission
Madison Community Foundation Grant Evaluation Report
Report to MCF by Gathering Waters and Clean Wisconsin for YLLP grant
Envisioning Our Yahara Lakes of the Future
Results from a preliminary visioning exercise, gathered from public input
Outcomes from 2008 Yahara Lakes Conference
Four concurrent sessions were held at the 2008 conference "A Clean Future for the Yahara Lakes: Solutions for Tomorrow, Starting Today". This document includes session descriptions and resulting recommendations from these sessions.
YAHARA WATERSHED DOCUMENTS
Recommendations from Various Yahara Lakes Reports
A summary document of recommendations from over 60 different Yahara Lakes-related reports and plans.
Yahara Lakes Timeline, 1836 to 2010
Document showing major historical lake-related events
Yahara-Mendota Priority Lake Project
Land Use Map
2009 Water Resource Practicum Report
Door Creek Watershed Assessment: A Sub-Watershed Approach to Nutrient Management for the Yahara Lakes
An Analysis of Phosphorus Runoff from Agricultural Non-Point Sources in the Pheasant Branch Watershed, WI, and Potential Reduction Methods and Benefits
Master of Science Project Report by Cory Anderson, UW-Madison Civil and Environmental Engineering
County Water Quality is Well Supported
March 4, 2009 Wisconsin State Journal Article
Controlling Eutrophication in the Yahara Lakes: Challenges and Opportunities
2009 presentation by Richard C. Lathrop, Wisconsin Dept. Natural Resources & UW Center for Limnology
Water Quality Planning in the Dane County Region
2007 Presentation by Friends of Cherokee Marsh
The Farm Practices Inventory
Utilizing a Needs Assessment in Water Quality Program Implementation: Lake Mendota Watershed (1996)
Lake Mendota Watershed Modeling Flow Chart
2010 presentation on phosphorus loadings in Lake Mendota Watershed
Lakes of Silver and Green
The Intense City-shaping Relationship between People and Water in Madison, Wisconsin, by David Mollenhoff
Rock River Watershed Map
Total Phosphorus Loads (lbs/Acre/Year)
Potential Effects of Zebra Mussels in the Madison Lakes
Final report from a research grant from the Wisconsin DNR Aquatic Invasive Species Grants Program
GENERAL WATER QUALITY DOCUMENTS
Trophic State
Explanation of the "trophic state" of water bodies, excerpt from "Understanding Lake Data", UW-Extension
An Urgent Call To Action: Report of the State-EPA Nutrient Innovations Task Group
2009 Report
Eutrophication of U.S. Freshwaters: Analysis of Potential Economic Damages
2008 article in Environmental Science & Technology
Sweet Water Water Quality Trading Subcommittee and Policy Committee Consensus Policy Recommendations
Water quality trading recommendations by a Sweetwater Trust Subcommittee
White Paper/Analysis for Watershed-Based Permitting Primer
Report prepared for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Decrease in Lake Pollution Sought in City Experiment
1954 Wisconsin State Journal Article
