WINNECONNE (NBC 26) — The Winneconne Breakwall project is a 2,500-foot rock wall built to prevent erosion from degrading the shoreline wetland, while fostering a diverse aquatic habitat and preventing phosphorus pollution from spreading through the lake.

The Winneconne Breakwall Project is expected to be completed this month.

Since 1998, Winnebago County has built about 7 miles of breakwalls throughout the Lake Winnebago system.

The project costs $860,000, paid for by federal, county and private funds.

Each day, dump trucks bring loads of rock to the Northwest shore of Lake Winneconne. The rock is dumped in the water, then backhoes push the rocks together to form a wall.

The finished project will be made of more than 11,000 tons of rock, according to the director of Winnebago County L

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