From: Tyler Gruetzmacher [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 4:01 PM
To: Dan Masterpole
Cc: David Nashold; Seth Ebel; Frank Pascarella; Dan Prestebak ([email protected])
Subject: Re: Red Cedar Barnyard Runoff sites
Dan, Dave, Seth, and Frank
Thanks for the info. A future project is exactly why I am doing this. The way I understand it, the plan is
to identify the sources of P, estimate costs to fix and then apply for grants down the road.
Tyler
Tyler Gruetzmacher
Barron County Conservationist
Office 715-537-6246
Cell 715-418-1015
Soil Conservation -- Getting running water to walk
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Dan Masterpole <[email protected]> wrote:
TG
Good afternoon Tyler.
We are juggling a competing workload, so had to defer your request for information needed to
estimate pollutant loads.
Today I sat down with David and Seth and reviewed the sites from our collective memory and available
knowledge.
Results of the inventory to follow today, with herd type and numbers written on map margins.
This should give you enough to provide reasonable estimates for watershed planning purposes.
You will have to make some assumptions for some of the dairies regarding whether or not they have
replacements housed on site. We will trust your judgment on this.
It was a worthy exercise. A lot of P runoff coming off those sites that could be controlled.
Chipco. would likely be interested in cooperating toward some type of a coordinated barnyard project
at some point in the future, but would need to get it into a multi year program planning effort as
necessary to secure staff resources.
We are tapped out, and are now forced to operate on a complaint driven basis.
Inventory data to follow.
Wishing you the best in 2015.
Dan Masterpole
Dept. Director/County Conservationist
Chippewa County Land Conservation & Forest Management
711 N. Bridge Street
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
#715-726-7920 (phone)
#715-726-4589 (fax)
www.co.chippewa.wi.us
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------From: Tyler Gruetzmacher [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 12:55 PM
To: Dan Masterpole
Subject: Fwd: Red Cedar Barnyard Runoff sites
Dan,
I took a look at the ChipCo portions of the Red Cedar Basin as part of the inventory. I really want to get
a proper barnyard P number for the Basin.
Could you and your staff take a look at the maps and make a note of the estimated number and type of
cattle (dairy or beef) and send them back?
Please don't take it that I am spying on you guys. This is all downstream of Barron. I just want the Red
Cedar TMDL to be as accurate as possible. Maybe we can look at a Barnyard project as part of it.
Thanks,
Tyler Gruetzmacher
Barron County Conservationist
Office 715-537-6246
Cell 715-418-1015
Soil Conservation -- Getting running water to walk
---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Tyler Gruetzmacher <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:14 PM
Subject: Red Cedar Barnyard Runoff sites
To: Dan Masterpole <[email protected]>, "Burns, Lisa" <[email protected]>,
lwtech <[email protected]>, Tim Ritten <[email protected]>, Bob Heise
<[email protected]>
Cc: "Prestebak, Daniel" <[email protected]>, "Zerr, Daniel P." <[email protected]>
Good Afternoon,
As part of the Red Cedar TMDL process I want to look at all of the barnyards in the basin that are direct
contributors and run them through BARNY to get a P number and an idea of how much it is going to cost
to fix them. We keep using a 1990 number that shows that barnyards contribute 7% of the P to the
basin. I think its much lower.
Its not like the old Priority Watershed days that required a site visit to determine this number on a 100
barnyards in a 3 township watershed.
I have the Barron ones done and have about 40 on my list.
I volunteered to work on getting the numbers for the Counties that have smaller areas contributing to
the Red Basin. Some of you might not even have 1.
What I am looking for each of your Counties is the following information for each barnyard.
Location - Town and section and watershed
Size of the earthen area - from your most recent airphoto.
estimated number and type (dairy or beef) of cattle. - Don't worry if have to guess.
distance to the stream or concentrated flow. Most of them that I am looking at are 0.
A estimated cost to fix - once again SWAG
I will then run them through BARNY and get a number for the basin and each of its subsheds.
Thanks much, and let me know if you have any questions.
Tyler Gruetzmacher
Barron County Conservationist
Office 715-537-6246
Cell 715-418-1015
Soil Conservation -- Getting running water to walk