Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company (WVIC) owns and operates a network of 21 storage reservoirs containing 24 dams and more than 60 lakes that collectively comprise WVIC’s Wisconsin River Headwaters Project in the Central/Northern Wisconsin River Basin. WVIC is a private company chartered by the Wisconsin State Legislature in 1907 and the reservoir system is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
The system is holistically managed to maintain as uniform a flow as practicable in the Wisconsin and Tomahawk rivers and a reasonable balance among the benefits the water resource provides including water conservation, flood control, low flow augmentation, hydroelectric generation, water quality, wildlife, and recreation.
