On April 6, 2021, the voters in Marquette, Portage and Wood County voted to support the right to clean water in Wisconsin, with a 73% yes vote in Marquette County, a 77% yes vote in Portage County, and a 76% yes vote in Wood County. Read the press release from River Alliance of Wisconsin here.
On April 4, 2021, the DNR released the results of the Central Sands Lake Study. Read the news release here.
Matt and Sarah Hintz are aiming for sustainability on their demonstration farm. Read more about their efforts here.
The Wisconsin Conservation Congress (WCC) and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will be holding the annual Spring Hearings online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Questions #5 and #21 on high capacity wells and local control, respectively, may be of particular interest to CSWAC members.
The 2021 Spring Hearing online input webpage and will go live at 7 p.m. on April 12 and will remain open for three days (72 hours). Results will be posted as soon as they are available.
More details are available here.
According to a Wisconsin State Journal article published on January, 11, 2021, “In an order issued Tuesday, the high court granted a request from the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization to intervene in a pair of joined cases that hinge on the balance of power between elected politicians who make the laws and technical experts who implement it. Click here to read the full article.
The DNR released a PFAS Action Plan, but the Legislature’s rules committee is meeting to consider suspending key parts of the rule.
Read about the action plan here, here, and here.
The rules committee will hold a public hearing Friday on the proposal that will include only speakers invited by the Republican co-chairs. The committee has not released a list of invited speakers. Read about the rules committee’s hearing here.
The Wisconsin Potato and Vegetable Growers Association’s (WPVGA’s) Joe Kertzman got it right in the September 23rd Argus – the levels of lakes and groundwater are way up right now. And though he didn’t say it, so are the levels of wetlands and the flows of streams.
It’s curious that the WPVGA should bring up water levels at this time, as they’ve often deflected attention from lake and stream drying due to high capacity well pumping by claiming water levels barely ever change. We have to wonder: could they be trying to sow confusion in anticipation of the release of DNR’s Central Sands Lakes Study (CSLS)? That study, due for public comment in March 2021 and submission to the legislature on June 1, is supposed to recommend measures that could limit how much water irrigators can pump when unlimited pumping causes fish die offs and lake and stream drying.
More on the CSLS later, but first let’s explore what makes water levels go up and down.
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Guidelines for the containment and disposal of the substances known as “forever chemicals” or PFAS are on hold after heavy corporate lobbying. Read more here from Up North News.
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