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Dane County Executive Joe Parisi has proposed a $12 million project to remove “legacy” phosphorus-laden sediment from tributary streams to the Yahara chain of lakes, in an attempt to improve the lakes’ water quality. Research on Dorn Creek, a Lake Mendota tributary, revealed not only... Read More
We are fortunate to live in a state that has plentiful flowing water, but what if that all changed. What if you went to your faucet on a steaming summer day to find no drinkable water coming out the other end? Imagine a Day Without Water! For many people this is not a fictitious... Read More
A momentous event occurred last week when our stalwart citizen group partners the Petenwell and Castle Rock Stewards (PACRS) hosted a couple dozen farmers from "upstream" in their watershed, to talk about water quality issues (and then see and smell them first-hand via a boat ride) and their... Read More
The granddaughters of Kewaunee County resident Chuck Wagner hesitate before taking a bath at Granddad's place. That brown water came out of the tap -- clear (or not) evidence manure leaks to groundwater in that county. New rules designed to minimize this kind of contamination were weakened by the... Read More
Wisconsin Land + Water Conservation Association generously provided a forum to the River Alliance at their annual county conservationists meeting on July 21 in Wisconsin Rapids to bring in two dynamic speakers from Iowa—Jennifer Terry from Des Moines Water Works (DMWW), and Craig Cox from the... Read More
