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23 | P a g e Tasks: a. Improve average depth, reshape banks, improve littoral habitat, and berm lakes to reduce flooding potential. b. Investigate enlarging or connecting some of the smaller lakes to the larger ones. c. Improve shoreline access with bump outs, jetties and docks. d. Chemical renovation of fish to improve sportfish populations. e. Enhance in-lake fish habitat using cedar trees and artificial structures. Ownership: NGPC Potential Partners: NGPC Parks Division Sherman Reservoir (Sherman County) Sherman is a 2,845-acre irrigation reservoir with a stable water supply ensuring that it fills to capacity each spring. Numerous large coves provide excellent crappie spawning and rearing habitat resulting in an excellent fishery. The coves are susceptible to separation from the main reservoir due to sedimentation and eroding shorelines, which were stabilized during an aquatic habitat project completed in 2006. Complete an evaluation of this past project to determine the impact to lateral drift of sediment and identify areas for additional improvements to cove habitat and angler access. Goals: Habitat, Access, Evaluation Tasks: a. Improve angler access in coves for bank anglers by constructing better roads, adding docks, bump outs and reshaped shorelines. b. Protect coves from becoming separated from main reservoir during periods of low water. c. Construct breakwaters, reshape bank lines, armor eroding shorelines, and add additional crappie habitat and attractors in selected coves. d. Evaluate past AHP to determine impact on shoreline erosion and quality of fishery. Ownership: Farwell Irrigation District Potential Partners: NGPC Parks Division, Farwell Irrigation District Windmill SRA (Buffalo) Windmill SRA has six sandpits providing angling and boating opportunities on 23 surface acres of water. Windmill State Recreation Area is a popular destination for anglers and campers in central Nebraska and improvements to habitat within these sandpits will be popular amenities. Sandpit lakes are typically limited in habitat diversity due to their method of construction. This project aims to improve on that with a variety of techniques including selective excavation, rock piles, vegetation barriers, shoreline nodes, floating wetlands, underwater tree habitat and spawning habitat. Each of these techniques is unique