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Authorizing The Mayor And City Clerk To Apply For And Accept A DNR Lake Planning Grant To Provide Virtual Discharge Gauge Information in Real-Time for Lower Mud Lake. (Various ADs)
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PREAMBLE
The community based Nowcast and Forecast Operation System or INFOS is a web-based platform designed to provide real time gauge and modeling information for the Yahara Lakes. The modeling component provides lake characteristic information including spatial information for water levels and discharge. This project will consist of three phases, which are specific to Lower Mud Lake: (i) data compiling and analysis; (ii) model setup, calibration, validation, and application; (iii) interface development of a real-time website to visualize the model information. The overall project goal is to allow managers and researchers to assess the water levels and discharge in and out of Lower Mud Lake with the use of a real-time model.
City Engineering will collect the necessary field data with assistance from the Dane County barge crew. Also, City Engineering staff will be creating this web-based platform with assistance from the University of Wisconsin Environmental Fluid Mechanics Program. The project will continue through 2012.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Lake Planning Grant Program offers financial assistance for lake planning projects that will improve and protect water quality. City Engineering will apply for this grant in 2010. Should the City of Madison receive a grant for this project, the funds would be used to purchase necessary equipment and other monitoring costs associated with field sampling and computer modeling.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Madison requests $10,000 in funds available from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Lake Planning Grant Program;
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Madison will provide in kind matching funds for staff time over the course of 4 calendar years.
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