The Chequamegon Bay Area Partnership identified sediment as the number one pollutant affecting Fish Creek and Chequamegon Bay. Over the course of year Fish Creek delivers more than 1,000 dump truck loads of sediment to Chequamegon Bay—and most of the sediment reaches Chequamegon Bay over a handful of days when it rains or during snowmelt, according to researchers.

The Fish Creek Partnership seeks to help landowners brainstorm and implement solutions to sediment issues—like encouraging rain barrels, tree plantings and rain gardens to slow the flow of roof runoff, installing wetland ponds and creating buffers—and assists them in finding funding and expertise for these “slow the flow” projects. 

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• Rapid snowmelt rushes sediment into Chequamegon Bay
• Plumes of red clay, sediment flood the Chequamegon Bay
• Rain gardens at WITC promote health of Lake Superior Watershed
• CBAP partners reach out to landowners in wetland restoration efforts

• Fish Creek Watershed Restoration & Management Plan (PDF)
• Landowner Wickman
  
• Landowner Elmer
• Landowner Charlie Ylitalo