Waterfront Runoff Checklist

Native plantings improve wildlife habitat, low runoff water, and promote natural beauty.

This infiltration best practice captures, cleans, and infiltrates runoff that would otherwise move downhill into the lake.

Rain gardens capture and infiltrate runoff allowing about 30%more water to soak into the ground than conventional lawn and can be used with any soil type.

Riprap is human-placed rock or other material used to protect shoreline structures against scour (removal of sediment) and water, wave, or ice erosion.

A diversion best practice redirects runoff that would otherwise move downhill into the lake to a dispersion area where it can soak in to the ground.

 Fish Sticks are feeding, breeding, and nesting areas for all sorts of critters – from fish to song birds. They can also prevent bank erosion – protecting lakeshore properties and our lakes .