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Recommendations and Strategies

To ensure that your plan becomes a vehicle for change, make your declarations of problems or issues and your related goals and strategies or proposed actions as clear as possible. With the semantics of planning, this is often more difficult than one would imagine. Please see the suggestions below.

    Problem Statement: What is the issue or problem.
    Resource Goals: What is the general goal or vision of a better situation.
    Recommendations: General recommendations on what should be done.
    Strategies: Specific approach and work about how the recommendation is going to get done.

Generally, Watershed Plan recommendations will fall into several common categories related to specific work activities. However, unique recommendations should be developed if called for, and especially where partnerships and common resources are possible.

Common Types of Watershed Planning Recommendations for DNR staff workplanning: (specific actions would be paired with these recommendations to document the work as it is done).

Consider (waterbody) for listing as Impaired Water based on the assessment data available.
Conduct monitoring on (waterbody) to evaluate for an impaired water listing.
Evaluate the success of aquatic plant treatments conducted on (waterbody).
Conduct outreach and educational activities in the watershed.
Conduct fish stocking on (waterbody).
Establish Riparian or Shoreland Buffers along (waterbody).
Restore wetlands in the watershed.
Restore instream habitat on (waterbody).
Restore riparian habitat on (waterbody).
Dam _____ is recommended for evaluation and possible removal or other management options.
Restore Stream Morphology, Hydrology on (waterbody).
Recommend Wasterwater treatment improvements, including ______.
Rivers Planning Grant Recommended for (waterbody).
Rivers Management Grant Recommended for (waterbody).
Lakes Planning Grant Recommended for (waterbody).
Runoff Grant Recommended for (waterbody).
Lakes Protection Grant Recommended for (waterbody).
Conduct a Permit Compliance Inventory for ____________ facility.
Conduct Stormwater Planning in the _________ watershed.
Seek Natural Areas Protection for (waterbody).
Monitor Water for Fish Tissue Contamination on (waterbody).
Conduct Baseline Monitoring on (waterbody).
Conduct Targeted Monitoring (Special Projects) on (waterbody).
Conduct Evaluation Monitoring (Special Projects) on (waterbody).
Conduct Water Quality Classifications Survey on (waterbody).
Update Water Quality Classification (Designated Use) (waterbody).
Delist (waterbody) from Impaired Waters List.