NR 120.14(15)(b)2.a.a. For planting trees if approved by a county’s land conservation department in consultation with the department fish manager. NR 120.14(15)(b)2.b.b. For water pumps and other measures required to eliminate livestock access to water. NR 120.14(15)(b)2.c.c. To install livestock and machinery crossings that will minimize disturbance of the stream channel and banks. NR 120.14(15)(b)2.d.d. For the design and placement of practices such as shaping and placement of vegetation, riprap or structures which improve fishery habitat, or other materials on banks and shores identified in an approved priority watershed plan, priority lake plan or the project grant application, or in areas where streambank repair is the least costly alternative. Written departmental approval is required for the stabilization of banks with structural heights higher than 15 feet. NR 120.14 NoteNote: A permit may be required under ch. 30, Stats., when installing this best management practice. For more information, please contact the Bureau of Fisheries Management and Habitat Protection, P.O. Box 7921, Madison, Wisconsin 53707. NR 120.14(15)(b)3.3. Cost-sharing is not authorized for wood chunks, unsorted demolition material, brick, plaster, blacktop and any other material that could produce leachates or would violate provisions of statutes or administrative codes for use as riprap. NR 120.14(15)(c)2.a.a. U.S. department of transportation hydraulic engineering Circulars numbers 11, Design of Riprap Revetment, Pub. No. FH WA-IP-89-016, March, 1989 and 15, Design of Roadside Channels with Flexible Linings, Pub. No. FH WA-IP-87-7, April, 1998, which are incorporated by reference for this chapter. NR 120.14(15)(c)2.b.b. American fisheries society’s stream obstruction removal guidelines, which are incorporated by reference for this chapter. NR 120.14(15)(c)2.c.c. U.S. department of agriculture’s Stream Habitat Improvement Handbook, publication R8-TP-16, June 1992, which is incorporated by reference for this chapter. NR 120.14(15)(c)2.d.d. Natural Resources Conservation Service Engineering Field Handbook, Soil Bioengineering for Upland Slope Protection and Erosion Reduction, Pub. 210-EFH, October, 1992, which is incorporated by reference for this chapter. NR 120.14 NoteNote: Copies of the materials described in subd. 2. a. to d. may be inspected at the offices of the department, 101 S. Webster Street, Madison; the Secretary of State, 30 W. Mifflin, Madison; and the Legislative Reference Bureau, One E. Main Street, Suite 200, Madison.
NR 120.14(16)(a)(a) Description. Riparian buffers are areas in which vegetation is enhanced or established to reduce or eliminate the movement of sediment, nutrients and other nonpoint source pollutants to adjacent surface water resources or groundwater recharge areas and to protect the banks of streams and lakes from erosion and to protect fish habitat. This practice shall be implemented using one or more of the standards in par. (c). NR 120.14(16)(b)1.1. Cost-sharing may be provided only when the riparian buffers are used consistent with the approved priority watershed plan, priority lake plan or project grant application or approved priority watershed or lake plan.