Table Rock Lake Watershed Management Plan
Cleaner Water Together
We're hosting several coffee shop talks to discuss this plan! Click here to join us and share your thoughts.
The Table Rock Lake
Watershed Management PLAN
It is no surprise to residents and businesses on the lake that Table Rock Lake is a waterbody of economic and recreational significance for the State of Missouri. However, Table Rock Lake faces water quality challenges. This project aims to address water quality impairments and concerns in a comprehensive plan with solutions and best management practices. Our goal is to create a plan that is accepted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. An accepted plan provides a roadmap for a holistic approach to water quality protection and improvement of one of our most treasured resources.
Table Rock Lake Watershed
How Do We Develop Watershed Management Plans?
Watershed-based management planning typically occurs through these six steps:
a. Building partnerships,
b. Characterizing the watershed,
c. Finalizing management goals and identifying solutions,
d. Designing an implementation program,
e. Implementing the watershed-based management plan, and
f. Measuring progress and making adjustments through adaptive management.
H2Ozarks’ role in developing the Table Rock Lake Watershed Management Plan will be to identify stakeholders and communicate project outcomes. H2Ozarks will facilitate stakeholder meetings in which OEWRI will present information on the watershed planning process and status of the management plan development. During these engagements, stakeholders will contribute to the development of the watershed-based management plan, and an emphasis will be placed on the need for cooperative implementation of beneficial practices, and the socioeconomic benefits that can accrue to all stakeholders from protecting and restoring waterbodies in the watershed.
The H2Ozarks’ Basin Bulletin will periodically report to the public on meeting outcomes and plan development. Make sure to subscribe to stay informed!
Stakeholder Resources
Program files:
- Map of the Table Rock Lake Project Area
- Glossary of Terms
- "Where in your Watershed?" map
- "What Do We Know" questionnaire
- Stakeholder Skills and Knowledge form
Meeting Presentations:
This project is made possible by a $190,000 grant from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources through the Federal Nonpoint Source Section 319 program. Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute (OEWRI) at Missouri State University and H2Ozarks received this funding to complete a watershed-based plan for multiple subwatersheds within the Table Rock Lake area.
The grant period runs from November 2023 to December 2026 and requires an additional 40% non-federal match by the grant partners.
How you can help:
