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1 Lake Puckaway Green Lake & Marquette Counties, Wisconsin Comprehensive Management Plan September 2017 Sponsored by: Lake Puckaway Protection & Rehabilitation District WDNR Grant Program LPL-1560-15, LPL-1596-16, SPL-385-17 Lake Puckaway Green Lake & Marquette Counties, Wisconsin Comprehensive Management Plan September 2017 Created by: Tim Hoyman, Paul Garrison, Brenton Butterfield, Todd Hanke, & Emily Henrigillis Onterra, LLC De Pere, WI Funded by: Lake Puckaway Protection and Rehabilitation District. Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources (LPL-1560-15, LPL-1596-16, SPL-385-17) Acknowledgements This management planning effort was truly a team-based project and could not have been completed without the input of the following individuals.

2 Lake Puckaway Protection & Rehabilitation District Planning Committee Paul Gettelman* Jeff Kimber*Mick Masters Kurt McCulloch* Randy SchmidtRoger Swanke* Gene Weber* Brian Zimmermann*LPPRD Board of Commissioners member Lake Puckaway Protection & Rehabilitation District Phil Malsack Adam Malsack Green Lake County Land Conservation Department Derek Kavanaugh Krista Kamke Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources Ted Johnson Dave BartzKeith MarquardtDave Bolha Lake Puckaway Comprehensive Management Plan 1 Document Information TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary.

3 4 Introduction .. 10 Stakeholder Participation .. 13 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION .. 20 Lake Water Quality .. 20 Watershed Assessment .. 41 Shoreland Condition .. 46 Aquatic Plants .. 54 Aquatic Invasive Species in Lake Puckaway .. 84 Fisheries Data Integration .. 86 Lake Puckaway Wave and Sediment Resuspension .. 95 Implementation Plan .. 97 112 Literature Cited .. 116 FIGURES Select survey responses from the Lake Puckaway Stakeholder Survey .. 17 Select survey responses from the Lake Puckaway Stakeholder Survey, continued.

4 18 Wisconsin Lake Natural Communities .. 24 Location of Lake Puckaway within the ecoregions of Wisconsin .. 24 Lake Puckaway weighted average growing season and summer near-surface total phosphorus concentrations measured from the Deep Hole station in the West Basin and the East Mid-Basin ..26 Lake Puckaway weighted average growing season and summer near-surface total phosphorus concentrations .. 27 Lake Puckaway weighted average growing season and summer near-surface chlorophyll-a concentrations measured from the Deep Hole station in the West Basin and the East Mid-Basin.

5 29 Lake Puckaway weighted average growing season and summer near-surface chlorophyll-a concentrations .. 30 Lake Puckaway weighted average growing season and summer Secchi disk transparency depths measured from the Deep Hole station in the West Basin and the East Mid-Basin .. 31 Lake Puckaway weighted average Trophic State Index values measured from the Deep Hole Station in the West Basin and the East Mid-Basin .. 33 Comparison of total phosphorus, chlorophyll-a, and Secchi disk transparency in the Fox and Grand rivers above the entrance into Lake Puckaway, the lake itself, and values measured at the lake s outlet during the period 2011-14.

6 34 Internal loading in Lake Puckaway as calculated from the difference between the amount of total phosphorus entering the lake from the Grand and Fox rivers and the amount leaving the lake .. 35 Lake Puckaway Deep Hole 2015-2017 temperature and dissolved oxygen profiles ..37 Lake Puckaway East Mid-Basin 2015-2017 temperature and dissolved oxygen profiles .. 38 Stakeholder survey response Question #14 .. 40 Stakeholder survey response Question #15 .. 40 Map of the subwatersheds of Lake Puckaway .. 43 Lake Puckaway land cover types.

7 43 Lake Puckaway Protection 2 & Rehabilitation District Document Information Lake Puckaway estimated potential annual phosphorus loading.

8 44 Lake Puckaway Shoreline Survey .. 53 Spread of Eurasian watermilfoil within WI counties .. 67 Lake Puckaway proportion of substrate types .. 68 Lake Puckaway relative frequency of vegetation across water depth .. 70 Lake Puckaway 2015 aquatic vegetation total rake fullness (TRF) ratings .. 70 Lake Puckaway 2015 littoral frequency of occurrence of aquatic plant species .. 77 Littoral occurrence of aquatic vegetation in Lake Puckaway in 2005, 2014, and 2015 .. 73 Littoral frequency of occurrence of select aquatic plant species in Lake Puckaway from 2005, 2014, and 2015.

9 74 Lake Puckaway 2005, 2014, and 2015 Floristic Quality Assessment .. 76 Lake Puckaway 2005, 2014, and 2015 aquatic plant community Simpson s Diversity Index .. 77 Lake Puckaway 2015 hybrid watermilfoil locations .. 79 Lake Puckaway 2015 curly-leaf pondweed locations .. 80 Lake Puckaway 2015 brittle naiad locations .. 81 Stakeholder survey response Question #25 .. 83 Stakeholder survey response Question #20 .. 85 Stakeholder survey response Question #10 .. 86 Stakeholder survey response Question #11 .. 86 Aquatic food chain.

10 87 Wisconsin statewide safe fish consumption guidelines .. 93 Wind direction count near Lake Puckaway during open water season from 2011 to 2015 .. 95 Modeled wavelength on Lake Puckaway based upon northeast wind at 5, 10 and 15 mph .. 96 Sediment resuspension probability in Lake Puckaway during the 2015 open water season .. 96 Aquatic plant occurrences in Lake Puckaway during 2015 point-intercept survey .. 105 Estimated bottom sediment exposure and remaining water depths during a water level reduction on Lake Puckaway.