Nomination Forms Due 1.7.2025 by 5pm: NOTICE OF SPRING ELECTIONTOWN OF DELAVANApril 1, 2025      NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election is to be held in the Town of Delavan on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, the following offices to be elected to succeed the present incumbents listed. The Term for all offices is for the years listed beginning, Tuesday, April 15, 2024, to succeed the following incumbents: OFFICE                                                  INCUMBENT                               TERM Town Board Chairperson                       Mary Knipper                              2 Years Town Board Supervisor                         Ben Nixdorf                                 2 Years Town Board Supervisor                         Leah Flitcroft                               2 Years Sanitary District Commissioner            Tom Miller                                   6 Years Municipal Judge                                   Edward Thompson                      4 Years            NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the first day to circulate nomination papers is December 1, 2024 and nomination papers must be filed at the Delavan Town Hall in the Clerk’s Office, 5621 Town Hall Road, Delavan, Wisconsin by 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 7, 2025. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that if a primary is necessary, the primary will be held on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.   Michele Starin Town of Delavan Clerk Declaration of Candidacy & Nomination Paperwork Deadline Tuesday, January 7, 2025 @5pm Please note that if you plan to be on the ballot, each of the following forms must be completed and filed on time by a candidate for municipal office in order for the candidate’s name to be placed on the ballot for the February 18, 2025 Spring Primary (if necessary) and the April 1, 2025 Spring Election. ELIS-7 Ballot Access Checklist for Municipal Candidates  CF-1 Campaign Registration Statement – As an incumbent, you need only AMEND your current registration, indicating the office sought and the new primary and election dates. Wis. Stat. §§ 11.0202(1)(a), 11.0101(1). EL-162 Declaration of Candidacy  – Complete and submit the Declaration of Candidacy to me by no later than 5p.m. on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 or the candidate’s name will not be placed on the ballot. If the form is faxed or emailed, the original document must follow, postmarked no later than January 7, 2025. Wis. Stat. §§ 8.10(5), 8.21, 8.30(4), Wis. Admin. Code EL § 6.04. EL-169 Nomination Paper for Nonpartisan Office – Submit your nomination papers to me by no later than 5p.m. on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 or the candidate’s name will not be placed on the ballot. Only original nomination papers (no photocopies, faxes, or emailed documents) will be accepted. Nomination papers may not be circulated before December 1, 2024. Wis. Stat. § 8.10(2), Wis. Admin. Code EL § 6.04(2). General information for local government candidacy:  https://elections.wi.gov/candidates/local-candidates#230548828-1556562227  

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New Wisconsin DNR Lake Resident Permit For Dredging

Applications available for general permits for small-scale dredging projects in public waters

MADISON – A new general permit that streamlines approvals for small-scale dredging in the state’s lakes, rivers and streams has been finalized after a public comment period and is now available for applications. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources received and considered over 700 comments related to the draft general permit before issuing the final permit.

The new general permit outlines standards and conditions for the dredging of lakes and streams that have to be met in order be considered for coverage under a general permit and replaces the current small-scale dredging general permit for rivers and streams that was promulgated under Administrative Rule in 2005.

“After meeting with stakeholders, it was discovered there was a need to expand the process we currently have in place for streams and make it applicable to lakes and streams,” said Martin Griffin, Section Chief of DNR’s waterway and wetland protection program.

“The main motivation for expanding the dredging general permit to lakes was to allow waterfront property owners, who are experiencing siltation and are unable to get their boats in and out from their piers and docks, the ability to remove small volume amounts of bed material for the purpose of improving navigation or recreation,” said Griffin.

The general permit is valid for five years and will allow applicants to apply for coverage under the permit to remove up to 25 cubic yards from streams and inland lakes and up to 100 cubic yards from the Great Lakes cumulatively within the 5-year period if the project meets all eligibility criteria and conditions.

In order to ensure the activities authorized under the new general permit do not result in significant effects on the environment, the permit is not eligible to be used in environmentally sensitive locations that are designated and mapped as such by the department. These areas include Areas of Special Natural Resource Interest and mapped Sensitive Areas, which are areas of aquatic vegetation identified by the department as offering critical or unique fish and wildlife habitat.

Previously approved dredging statewide general permits cover projects for: maintenance dredging of a previously dredged area and for removal of accumulated plant and animal nuisance deposits.

To apply for a dredging permit or get information about the waterway general permit for small-scale dredging, search the DNR website, dnr.wi.gov, for “dredging “or “water permit.”

Published by Central Office July 18, 2017

Contact(s): Martin Griffin, Section Chief, DNR waterway and wetland protection program, 608-266-2997, [email protected]