Coon Creek Watershed residents will have another opportunity to shape a plan for the Coon Creek Watershed this November, in the last of four public planning meetings conservation nonprofit Coon Creek Community Watershed Council, Inc. (CCCWC) has hosted this fall. The planning meeting will be held from 1:30-2:30 p.m. Nov. 6, at Coon Valley’s Knutson Memorial Library.
The watershed plan, which follows the Nine Element framework outlined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is meant to identify and address community concerns regarding the care and management of Coon Creek and its tributaries. The plan is a collaboration between CCCWC, partners in La Crosse, Monroe, and Vernon Counties, Valley Stewardship Network, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WI-DNR) and Coon Creek Watershed residents.
“This plan belongs to everyone who lives in or cares about the Coon Creek Watershed,” said council president Nancy Wedwick. “We are doing this work to build resilience to accelerating flooding, to create economic opportunity, to improve community health, and to care for Coon Creek’s lands and waters as best we can.”
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The plan is being completed in two parts. The first part, which covers the Timber Coulee Subbasin, is on schedule to move into its implementation phase this June. The second part of the plan encompasses the rest of the Coon Creek Watershed, and will be completed over the next three years with support from a WI-DNR Surface Water Grant…