1. Connecting People, Land and Water
Culvert Inventory, Restoration and
Monitoring Program
Lake Superior Binational Forum’s
Public Input Session
Friday, September 17, 2010

2. Our mission is to promote a healthy relationship
between the people and natural communities
by involving all citizens in
assessing, maintaining and improving
watershed integrity for future generations.

3. Lake Superior
Duluth
Ashland

4. The Bad River Watershed

5. Upper Watershed

7. Lower Watershed

8. BRWA Culvert Project History
In 2003, BRWA received $21,000 from USFWS to
remediate 3 crossings in the BRW.

9. Culvert Program Objectives
• Identify and inventory all stream/road crossings in
the Bad River Watershed
• Prioritize crossings in need of repair with respect to
fish passage barriers and sedimentation
• Search for funding to help pay for new installations
• Monitor the effects of restoration
• Educate watershed citizens about the environmental
and fiscal costs of improperly designed and/or installed
culverts

10. Culvert Program
• Find problem culverts and fix them
Sedimentation

12. Culvert Program
• Find problem culverts and fix them
Fish passage

14. Establish a database - Where are the culverts?

15. Establish a database - Where are the culverts?