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Carter Lake Watershed Management Planning Process Underway
UNL Extension has teamed up with the City of Omaha, the City of Carter Lake along with eleven other Nebraska and Iowa agencies, governmental entities and organizations to initiate the community based watershed management planning process in the Carter Lake watershed. UNL Douglas/Sarpy Extension and the West Pottawattamie County Soil and Water Conservation District are co-leading the planning process. Two public meetings have been held to increase the public’s awareness of the resource concerns, to develop a watershed vision statement and to prioritize the resource concerns and issues in the lake and watershed. A watershed council is being established to work with technical resource specialists to develop a watershed management plan. The plan will be developed over the next several months. The watershed council will evaluate alternatives to address the resource concerns and develop goals and objectives for the plan. The in-lake resource concerns will be addressed initially.

The community based watershed management planning process is an example of UNL Douglas/Sarpy Counties Extension working with federal, state, district and local agencies to provide educational programming to citizens put knowledge to work in their daily lives, with their families, and in their communities.