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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