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Sweet Water Trust


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Southeastern Wisconsin Watersheds Trust is a collaborative effort to

achieve healthy and sustainable water resources throughout theGreater Milwaukee Watersheds.


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Goals Make measurable progress toward

improving the water resources inthe region

Identify and support land usepractices and designs thatenhance/improve water resourcesand promote and restore ecologicalbenefits.

Forge and strengthen relationshipsto leverage funding andrecommend policies to assist in theimplementation of projects toproduce lasting water resourcebenefits and cost savings throughthe Greater Milwaukee Watersheds

and nearshore Lake Michigan. Implement cost-effective projects

that result in measurableimprovements in water quality andwater resources.


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Sweet Water Trust

Primary Purposes

Achieve water resource goals and objectives

Support a healthy regional economy and

improve quality of life Test and implement innovative, cost effective

approaches and practices that will achieve

improvements


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Sweet Water Trust

Primary Purposes

Build partnerships and enhance collaborative

decision making and joint project

implementation

Obtain broad agreement and recommend

where to invest funds to get greatest benefit

Increase the regions success in attracting new

funding and leverage existing funding


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Our Structure

ExecutiveSteering Council

Future WATSWatershed

Action TeamWatershed

Action Team

ProjectImplementation

TeamFuture PITS

Science AdvisoryCommittee

Policy AdvisoryCommittee

??? Kinnickinnic

River

Menomonee

River

Joyce

Foundation???


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Executive Steering Council

Martin Aquino, City of Milwaukee

Nancy Frank, UW-Milwaukee

Tom Grisa, City of Brookfield

HenryHamilton, III, NAACP Milwaukee Branch

Andy Holschbach, Ozaukee County

David Lee, We Energies Pat Marchese, Chair

Scott Mathie, Milwaukee Builders Association

Peter McAvoy, Sixteenth Street Community Health Center

ReggieNewson, WisDOT

ChristineNuernberg, City of Mequon

Neil Palmer, Village of Elm Grove

Kevin Shafer, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District

Dan Stoffel, Washington County Board

Kenneth Yunker, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission

Sharon Gayan, WDNR (non-voting member)


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Measurable Water Quality

Improvement Goals These measurablegoals will serve as indicators of progress being made toward

improvingwater quality conditions. Those, which are to be achieved by 2020 include:

1. Converting 48 square miles of marginal cropland to prairie or wetland conditions.

2. Establishing or expanding riparian buffers along about 325 miles of stream bank.

3. Reducing the loads of the following pollutants to streams and inland lakes,

relative to existing conditions, as follows:

Total Phosphorus: 15% (57,000-pound reduction)

Total Suspended Solids: 40% (69 million-pound reduction)

Fecal Coliform Bacteria: 50% (36,780 trillion-cell reduction)

Total Nitrogen: 30% (1.1 million-pound reduction)

Biochemcial Oxygen Demand: 15% (1.8 million-pound reduction) Copper: 15% (1,300 pound-reduction)


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Stakeholders + Science + Collaboration =

Projects

WatershedRestoration Plan

WatershedAction

Committee

Sweet Water Trust

RegionalWaterQuality

Plan

Project Implementation = Project Team + Funding


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Watershed

Restoration

Menomonee

and

Kinnickinnic

Rivers

Monitoring, Modeling and

theScience ofWater

Development and

Implementation of

Watershed Restoration

Plans

Legal and Policy

Implementation of the

Watershed Restoration Plans

SWWT Administration and

CommitteeSupport

Developing a

Communication and

Outreach Strategy for

SWWT

2009 2012 Joyce Grant Areas of Focus


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SWWT/NGO Team

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