Tobey Hicks

This document outlines the mission and goals of the Dodge County Renovation Reuse facility. Its primary purpose is to provide the community with affordable means to renew, restore, and reuse materials, aiming to educate on reuse importance, divert 15% of Dodge County waste from landfills, and promote behavior change through initiatives like fix-it clinics and swap meets. The plan details the facility's operations, financial sustainability, construction progress, and community partnerships, highlighting successful waste diversion metrics and community engagement.

The strategic plan focuses on managing, restoring, and protecting water and natural resources within the Root River plan area. Key areas of focus include implementing strategies that are prioritized, targeted, and result in measurable resource improvements, while considering the needs, rights, and interests of the local community, residents, and stakeholders. The plan addresses resources such as groundwater, surface water, and landscape features. It identifies priority resource concerns like drinking water supplies, streams and rivers, and landowner engagement, and outlines strategies and actions to achieve measurable goals related to water quality and quantity.

The Root River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report summarizes work done as part of the watershed approach including water quality monitoring and assessment, watershed characterization, civic engagement/public participation, and restoration/protection strategy development. The report presents scientifically and civically supported restoration and protection strategies to be used in planning that impacts water resources in the Root River watershed. It summarizes watershed conditions and restoration and protection strategy recommendations describing what it will take to reach and maintain water quality standards.

The Dodge County Solid Waste Management Plan for 2024-2033 focuses on managing waste in an environmentally responsible and cost-effective manner. Key strategies include waste reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting, with an emphasis on public education and convenient disposal services. The plan aims to comply with the Dodge/Olmsted Joint Solid Waste Management Agreement, which ensures final disposal through waste-to-energy and landfilling for materials not handled by other programs. Future initiatives involve establishing a ReUse center, improving the education program, and exploring opportunities for source separation of organics.

The strategic plan focuses on improving water quality in various HUC-10 subwatersheds by addressing stressors such as turbidity, elevated nitrate and phosphorus levels, lack of habitat, altered hydrology, and dissolved oxygen. It outlines specific practices like implementing filter strips, shoreline stabilizations, ravine stabilization, tillage BMPs, side inlets and buffers, in-stream BMPs, wetland restorations, and controlled drainage. The plan aims to reduce E. coli concentrations, turbidity levels, and nutrient runoff while increasing M-IBI and F-IBI scores to meet water quality standards.