National Water Quality Initiative - Wisconsin

The USDA's National Water Quality Initiative is committed to improving impaired waterways throughout the nation.  Three watersheds have been selected in Wisconsin. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will manage the initiative by making funds available to farmers and forest landowners in the selected watersheds to begin needed conservation practices to reduce sediment and nutrients entering the waterway.

Wisconsin Watersheds in NWQI                         

• Big Green Lake in Green Lake County  -  map (897 kb, jpg) 

• Pigeon Lake-Pigeon River  in Waupaca County map  (347 kb, jpg)

• Horse Lake-Horse Creek  in Polk County  map   (191 kb, jpg)
   

Program Information for 2013 NWQI in Wisconsin

• Plan of Operations and Process for NWQI in Wisconsin  (docx, 24 kb)
• Eligible practices and payment rates  (xlsx, 35 kb),  Historically underserved rates (35 kb, xlsx)
• Screening Worksheet for Eligibility 2013 (84 kb, pdf)
• Application Ranking Summary for Horse Lake-Horse Creek in Polk County  (10 kb, pdf)
• Application Ranking Summary for Big Green Lake in Green Lake County  (10 kb, pdf)
• Application Ranking Summary for Pigeon Lake in Waupaca County   (10 kb, pdf)
  
• NWQI Wisconsin Announcement, May, 2013
• Map of Wisconsin Watersheds for NWQI, 2013  (1 mb, pdf)
• NWQI Wisconsin Factsheet 2013 - (738 kb, pdf)

NWQI Archive Information for 2012 in Wisconsin

• Plan of Operations and Process for NWQI in Wisconsin  (docx, 24 kb)
• Eligible practices and payment rates  (xlsx, 17 kb),  Conservation Activity Plan rates (35 kb, xlsx)
• Screening Worksheet for Eligibility (84 kb, pdf)
• Application Ranking Summary for Ward Creek-Little Sugar River, Dane and Green Counties (10 kb, pdf)
• Application Ranking Summary for Big Green Lake in Green Lake County  (10 kb, pdf)
• Application Ranking Summary for Waumandee Creek in Buffalo County   (10 kb, pdf)
  
• NWQI Wisconsin Announcement, May, 2012
• Map of Wisconsin Watersheds for NWQI, 2012  (765 kb, jpeg)
• NWQI Wisconsin Factsheet - (660 kb, pdf)
  

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