Token Creek Restoration
Token Creek Watershed is a 27 square mile sub basin of the Yahara-Lake Mendota Watershed. It is located on Madison’s Northeast side and immediately adjacent to the City of Sun Prairie. This small watershed was probably a native brook trout fishery prior to European settlement but the construction of a grist mill dam in the center of the watershed about a 150 years ago has had limited the resource. Over the years the dams original function as a grist mill changed to supporting the recreation and aesthetic interest of the adjacent subdivisions.
On December 11th 1998 the Department and the Town of Windsor completed an acquisition of the Token Creek Dam and surrounding reservoir for $1,000,000. The core of this project is removing dam and restoring Token Creek through the former millpond to establish an unimpeded connection to the Culver Springs. Read the entire story here...
Last Revised: 2006
