Watershed management is an ongoing effort aimed at restoring, maintaining and enhancing water quality by bringing together stakeholders to assess pollutant threats throughout a river’s drainage basin and implementing steps to address the source for each problem.

Below are several watershed management plans. Some files have been broken into sections for easier downloading.

Higgins Lake Watershed Management Plan
Updated September 2007, DEQ Approved

View the Management Plan

Higgin's Lake Homeowner's Guide
Created June 2008 

Ocqueoc River Watershed Management Plan
Updated December 2006, DEQ Approved

Main Text
Appendix A - DEQ Biological Studies 
Appendix B - Survey Results
Appendix C - Road/Stream Inventory
 - Text
 - Inventory
 - Map
Appendix D - Streambank Inventory
 - Text
 - Inventory
 - Map
Appendix E - Agriculture Inventory
 - Text
 - Inventory
Appendix F - Social Evaluation

Upper Manistee River Watershed Management Plan
Updated September 2007, DEQ Approved

Main Text
Appendix A - Access Report
Appendix B - Road/Stream Inventory
Appendix C - Streambank Inventory

Rifle-Au Gres-Tawas Rivers Rapid Watershed Assessment
March 2008, NRCS Approved

View the Watershed Assessment 

Otsego Lake Homeowner's Guide
September 2008

Homeowner's Guide

Road end survey forms

Shoreline inventory report

Landowner survey results

North Branch Au Sable River Watershed Action Plan
April 2009

View the Watershed Action Plan

Road/Stream Crossing Survey Forms

Large Woody Debris Placement Map

Large Woody Debris Placement-Aerial Photo Map