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Goals

Functioning as part of the Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP) administrative umbrella, OCWC will connect multiple conservation stakeholders and serve several community-based functions:

• An engaged citizen group acting as an advisory body.

• A conduit for information flow from local, state, and regional management agencies.

• A venue to raise awareness by bringing expertise (Water Quality, Invasive Species, Non-Point Runoff, Endangered Species) to the community via seminars and work plans.

• An organizing body for complementary habitat restoration projects and water quality monitoring.

The synergies among LNRP Watershed Groups will:

• Enhance the watershed stewardship groups existing within the project area by building their capacity to reach and engage local citizens and officials. As a Friend group under the umbrella of LNRP, participants will help partners join forces and create a more powerful campaign than they would be able to do alone. Through sustained outreach, it will support the planning and development of volunteer and membership drives. Increased membership builds the sustainability of these groups by providing membership funds, organizational momentum, and a core “target audience” for future river stewardship programs and initiatives.

• Provide citizens and officials with opportunities to individually participate in protecting and restoring the rivers. Coastal Resiliency events hosted on the various branches and tributaries along the river will give citizens and officials opportunities to be involved with coordinated river protection and restoration activities that show immediate results.

• Raise citizens’ and officials’ awareness and understanding of threats to the river, including contamination that results in listing as 303(d) impaired waters. Coastal Resiliency seminars will bring speakers that can address timely and critical issues for each of the basins. Finally, the LNRP and partner newsletters will contain stories that will specifically address issues that are relevant to better understanding as well as promoting “action” events in which membership and the general public can participate.

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Leadership

The following people made up the Ozaukee County Watershed Coalition Steering Committee:

• Marjie Tomter (Co-Chair)
  President – OWLT Board of Directors; Ozaukee Treasures Network; Ulao Creek Partnership

• Peter Vander Velden (Co-Chair)
  Cybersecurity Engineer- University of Wisconsin- Madison

• Mike Ansay
  Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Office – Ansay & Associates

• Emily Blum
  Professional Engineer – Miller Engineers and Scientists

• Dale Buser
  Principal Specialist- Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission

• Jon Crain
  Superintendent of Parks, Forestry, & Landscape – City of Port Washington

• Thelma Heidel-Baker
  Soil Conservationists – USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service

• Amy Lentz
  Director of Projects – Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP)

• Tom Meaux
  President – Ansay Holdings

• Tom Mlada
  Executive Director – Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP) 

• Jennifer Phillips-Vanderberg
  Director – Lake Michigan Bird Observatory

• John Rassel
  President – Krier Foods, Inc.

• Derek Strohl
  Assistant District Manager- Minerals Division – U.S DOI Bureau of Land Management

• Andrew Struck
  Director of Planning & Parks – Ozaukee County

• Jacob Fincher

  Executive Director - Southeastern Wisconsin Watershed Trust, Inc.

Ozaukee County Watershed Coalition

Post Office Box 224
Port Washington, WI 53074

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