Joe Ginger, President

1205 Sun Vu Drive
Freeport, IL 61032
815-233-2154

Mission: "To improve the health and diversity of Yellow Creek and its watershed."

September 14, 2006

To: Yellow Creek Watershed Partnership Attendees and Interested Persons

From: Lee Butler, Vice President, Yellow Creek Watershed Partnership

Re: Minutes from September 14, 2006, Quarterly Meeting, Community Building, Krape Park

Having a quorum present, the meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by President, Joe Ginger.

Directors Present; Joe Ginger, Lee Butler, Steve Spudich, Craig Schroeder, Mark Keister

Directors Absent; Della Moen, Roger Carson, Gerald Leary, Jack Carey

PROGRAM;

He spoke about the;

Watershed Erosion & Sedimentation Inventory Procedure

This is going to be a BIG project and techincal. Our instructor, Roger Windhorn -from Champaign IL, knows the subject so well he makes it sound simple. Sharon Hartzold, also works with the data.

They have used this process in 35 other watersheds. This program was put together 6-7 years ago. We were told that this could be a 2 year project.

The USDA funding for stream bank erosion comes thru EQIP (Environmental Quality Incentives Program). It started in California and has made its way to the Midwest.

We will be studying sediment and river/creek bank erosion.

There are 46 sites in the Yellow Creek Watershed to study. Each site is 160 acres. There are a few sites in JoDavies County and a few in Carroll County.

There are also 30? to 40? creek sites to study. Each creek site will be about 1/4 mile long. The creek sites will most likely be studied by canoe or kayak.

All sites were chosen by Roger randomly based on his expertise using a topographical map. The map of the Yellow Creek Watershed is about 7 feet by 7 feet and hanging in the Soil & Water office on south Galena Ave showing the test sites. very impressive!

The program will be led by someone in the SWCD office.

I think this is their web site;

The program was followed by Q & A.