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		<div align="center"><font face="Arial" size="+1"><strong>Fumee Creek Watershed Project Description</strong></font></div><p>
		
		
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	The goal of the Fumee Creek Watershed Project has and will be to identify resource concerns within this 24,500 acre watershed. The current targets are non-point source pollutants (sediment, nutrients) entering stremas via stormwater, recreation trails, transportation, eroding streambanks and, agricultural sources.
		
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The Fumee Creek Watershed Project was awarded a two year Environmental Protection Agency Section 319 Clean Water Act Grant and officially began the planning phase of the watershed project in October 2000.  The Department of Environmental Quality administers the grant funding while Dickinson Conservation District staff directly manages the project on a local level.  Below is a list of the primary objectives of the watershed project.


<table cellpadding="5" align="right"><tr><td align="center"><img src="images/fumeeheadwaters.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="342" border="0"><br><font face="Arial" size="1" color="#008000">Headwaters at Fumee Creek at the Outlet<br> of Fumee Lake - Photo by Darlene Strand</font></td></tr></table>


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<li>Identify and inventory non-point source pollution impacts on surface water quality through visual survey, physical and chemical water quality testing, sediment sampling, and benthic macroinvertebrate sampling.<p>

<li>Establish and organize the Fumee Creek Watershed Advisory Council.  The Watershed Council is made up of local watershed stakeholders that help guide the progress of the Watershed Project, collect resource concerns from the public, and help assemble the Fumee Creek Watershed Management Plan.  Everyone is welcome to attend Advisory Council Meetings!<p>

<li>The Watershed Council meets on the second Tuesday every other month.  We meet at the Dickinson County Library in Iron Mountain at 4:00 P.M.  Please call the Dickinson Conservation District for possible changes in the schedule.  Future meetings are planned for: 
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<li>March 12, 2002
<li>May 14, 2002
<li>July 9, 2002
<li>September 10, 2002
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<li>Conduct an awareness campaign to inform community members of all ages about the purpose of the project and of the benefits of clean water in general.<p>

<li>The final product of the Watershed Project is to develop The Fumee Creek Watershed Management Plan from data gathered during the planning phase.  The Management Plan will be used to aid the community in addressing issues that will reduce current and future degradation of surface water quality.  (About what types of issues can be addressed to reduce negative impacts on surface water quality.)<p>

<li>In order to follow through on recommendations set forth in the Fumee Creek Watershed Management Plan, efforts will be made to secure future grant funding to implement Best Management Practices at identified project sites.
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