Shoreline Erosion Monitoring and Stabilization Plan

This shoreline erosion was discovered during a recent survey of the shoreline.

Rip-rap is placed in areas to reduce shoreline erosion and to prevent sediment from the shoreline building up in the flowage potentially disturbing aquatic habitat or creating sandbars that impede and endanger boat traffic.

Under this section of the Land Management Plan, WRPCO annually conducts surveys to monitor existing areas of erosion and to identify new areas of erosion on the WRPCO-owned land within the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) project boundary. Any shoreline erosion stabilization activities completed the year prior are also noted. The data collected annually is used to update a baseline map, first constructed in 2003.

On annual basis, WRPCO-owned land within the FERC project boundary identified in the survey as possibly needing stabilization activities are prioritized based on:

Threat to archaeological resources
Threat to aesthetics, threat to recreation
Ease of access for construction
Threat or opportunities related to fish and wildlife habitat
Ease of construction
Importance of land being lost
Budgetary planning

WRPCO allocates funds to conduct the shoreline stabilization activities on an annual basis. Each site is provided a score, WRPCO stabilizes as many high priority sites as the funding allows.

Since 1978, WRPCO has stabilized approximately 18.3 miles of shoreline on WRPCO-owned land within the FERC project boundary. Plans to stabilize WRPCO–owned land within the FERC project boundary identified as priority site during the 2007 are scheduled for the winter of 2008.

WRPCO is also working with local agencies, natural resource agencies and consultants to identify possible options on how to address extremely difficult erosion sites on WRPCO-owned land within the FERC project boundary.