Lake Winnebago Dam Relocation Project

The City of Lake Winnebago, Missouri, is a tight-knit community focused on providing residents with water-based recreational opportunities on the existing 244-acre lake. The original master plan for the community involved building two lakes; however, bankruptcy by the developer limited the community to one lake. Residents never lost their desire to complete the original lake plan and have partnered with South Winnebago Partners, LLC to complete the vision for the city. The project proposes to construct a new earthen filled dam downstream of the existing lake. The proposed dam is 65 feet tall and 1,440 feet long. Relocating the dam will expand the surface area of the lake from 244 acres to approximately 416 acres. The proposed project would result in placing fill material into jurisdictional waters of the United States, causing the unavoidable impact to 15,879 linear feet of stream and 16.57 acres of wetlands. Because this project is one of the largest regulated Corps of Engineers activities within the Kansas City metropolitan area, Olsson Associates was hired to complete Section 404 Permitting and mitigation planning.