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Waupaca County board approves bonding for Waupaca River Wetland Mitigation Bank
Summary
The Waupaca County Board unanimously adopted Resolution No. 5 authorizing bonding to construct and maintain a county-owned wetland mitigation bank in the Town of Royalton, specifying construction and maintenance assurance amounts and noting the bank will generate mitigation credits for future road projects and potential sale to local governments.
Waupaca County supervisors on June 18 unanimously approved Resolution No. 5 (2024-2025) authorizing bonding to construct and maintain the Waupaca River Wetland Mitigation Bank, a county-owned mitigation site in the Town of Royalton. The resolution says the site comprises approximately 243.57 acres and is designed to generate up to 128.67 wetland mitigation credits for use on county road projects and for sale to other local government units.
The county highway department is required to provide a construction assurance of $1,342,000 and maintenance assurances of $203,200 for Phase 1 and $411,400 for Phase 2, amounts the resolution says are acceptable to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR). The resolution also authorizes the county board chair to sign the agreement and directs the county clerk to attest the signature.
Supervisor Pete Bosquez moved to adopt the resolution and Supervisor Lee Much seconded; the board voted 24-0 to pass the measure. The resolution states no state or federal funds were used to purchase the property and that the county intends to use the bank’s credits for compensatory mitigation within the Fox Basin Area (Lake Michigan Basin) over coming decades.
The motion was introduced to update a previously passed resolution (Resolution No. 1, 2024-2025) to reflect the current authorized signer. The resolution text references the Waupaca County Highway Department and the WDNR as the entities responsible for construction and long-term maintenance oversight. The board provided no additional directives or timelines in the meeting minutes for sale or allocation of credits; those implementation details were not specified in the record.
The board chair signed the motion to adopt the resolution; the official attestation lines in the record are signed by County Clerk Kristy Opperman and Corporation Counsel Diane L. Meulemans.
