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CITY OF DECATUR <br /> LAKE DECATUR <br /> SEDIMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN <br /> OCTOBER 1998 <br /> 1. Continue to support the Macon County Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) with <br /> their urban and rural erosion control efforts, including: <br /> Erosion and sediment reduction efforts through annual contracts with the Macon County <br /> SWCD. <br /> Targeting most of the watershed erosion reduction efforts in the part of the watershed <br /> downstream of Monticello. <br /> Promoting the use of crop residue management and conservation tillage systems. <br /> Locally-designed cost share progams, with benefit-cost considerations used to target <br /> efforts to ensure the greatest possible net benefit for use of City funds. <br /> Providing cost share programs that are designed to promote whatever practices are <br /> needed to reduce erosion from sites that are identified as contributing large amounts of <br /> sediment to the Lake. <br /> Providing cost share programs that are used to promote the introduction of innovative <br /> ideas that, once demonstrated in the immediate axea, are likely to gain wide acceptance <br /> without the need for incentive payments. <br /> Requesting the Macon County SWCD to compare estimated benefits of cost share <br /> projects with the cost share payments to evaluate the net benefit of specific projects. <br /> Encouraging the City, and other local governments in Macon County urbanized areas, to <br /> review their ordinances, enforcement activities, and programs for control of construction <br /> site erosion and other sources of polluted storm runoff. <br /> 2. Request the Macon County SWCD to develop an erosion control priority plan for the valley <br /> bluff area of Lake Decatur. The City's current Phase II urban stormwater management <br /> planning may be of some use in this endeavor. <br /> 3. Apply for State and Federal grants to stabilize eroding Lake Decatur shoreline located north <br /> of Rea's Bridge Road. These shoreline areas are the most erosive sites on the Lake. <br /> 4. Develop a Lake Decatur dredging feasibility study including possible dredge sites, sediment <br /> disposal alternatives, and dredging methods by April of 1999. <br />