The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources supports Natural Shorelines initiatives and provides DNR funded, locally administered grants to lakes associations and individual homeowners, on a cost share basis.

The MKLPA will be working with the WDNR and with interested homeowners who want to restore their shoreline to protect our lakes. We are establishing contacts for further information and to provide entryways for the grant program.  The program provides funding and information that will be useful for do-it-yourselfers.

The surface water grant program provides cost-sharing grants for surface water protection and restoration. Funding is available for education, ecological assessments, planning, implementation, and aquatic invasive species prevention and control.

(LINK: https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/aid/SurfaceWater.html)

The program promotes 5 best practice strategies:

• 350 ft2Native Plantings: Plantings of native wildflowers, grasses, shrubs and trees.
• Fish Sticks: Submerged woody habitat structures.
• Diversion: Practices to move or redirect run-off.
• Rock Infiltration: Pits or trenches filled with rock to store and infiltrate run-off.
• Rain Gardens: Landscaped depressions to collect and filter run-off.

To learn more about the Healthy Lakes & Healthy Rivers Program, visit their website:https://healthylakeswi.com/