Tribe: Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and 1854 Treaty Authority
View Source Document: Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Plan: 1854 Ceded Territory Including the Bois Forte, Fond du Lac, and Grand Portage Reservations
Year: 2016
Topic: Adaptation Strategies to Address Climate Impacts to Water Quality: Conservation, Preservation, and Maintenance. (View All Topics in the Plan)
Work with the utility companies, industry, and wastewater treatment facilities to reduce discharges of sediment and nutrient to water bodies,...
Restore degraded (from ditching/hydrological modifications) peatlands functions and values by reestablishing natural hydrology, reforestation and subsequent conservation and/or paludiculture (wet...
Develop sewer models to estimate the impact of increased wet weather flows on wastewater collection system and treatment plant capacity...
Modify sewer systems to reduce impacts from increased flows including infiltration reduction measures, additional collection system capacity, offline storage, or...
Protect and mitigate existing impacts to the forests along the wetlands and riparian areas, and within the wetlands system.
Create runoff control buffers in fire prone areas and stormwater retention projects to aid in the prevention of contaminants into...
Develop flood management systems that better utilize natural floodplain processes. Thus, flood management should be integrated with watershed management on...
Implement more stream bank erosion control strategies (e.g., promoting land use practices that reduce erosion, add buffer along streams, look...
Encourage more mitigation projects for impacted surface waters, other than wetlands. Ensure that mitigation remains within the 1854 Ceded Territory...
Create solid waste management plans that integrate climate change. This will help ensure that in the case of flooding or...
Work with federal and state partners, conservation groups, private landowners, and others to preserve or restore wetlands ecosystems in buffer...