Links to General Information
- Wisconsin 2020 Water Quality Report to Congress – 4/1/20 – required by the Federal Clean Water Act every two years, this report is a “summary of water quality conditions in the State and an updated Impaired Waters List”
Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council Report to the Legislature 2020
- DNR Drinking Water webpage
- DNR Water Quality Viewer
- DNR Private Well Water Testing
- DNR Drinking Water and Groundwater Study Group
- UW-SP Private Well Water Data for Wisconsin – Well Water Quality Viewer
- EPA in Wisconsin webpage
- DATCP Livestock Facility Siting Homepage
Proposed Rules
- New! PFAS Process – NR 159 Proposed Rule Changes
- Surface Water Quality Criteria and Secondary Values for Toxic Substances – NR 105 Proposed Rule Changes
- Groundwater Quality Standards Update – NR 140 Proposed Rule Changes
- Safe Drinking Water Standards Update – NR 809 Proposed Rule Changes
- DNR seeks comment on updates to NR 151 re: nitrate pollution in groundwater
- Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Update – NR 151 Statement of Scope
- Livestock Facility Siting Rule Revision – halted 11/1/19
- Livestock Siting Key Rule Revisions: ATCP 51 Proposed Rule Changes
- Livestock Siting Update – ATCP 51 Statement of Scope – approved by Gov. Walker 1/16/16, Board of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection 3/22/16
- Wisconsin Legislative Council Review of Proposed Update to ACTP 51 – 10/1/19
Rules Process
Hearings
- Video of Public Hearings for Proposed Rule Standards NR 105, NR 140, NR 809
- Status:
- NR 105 public hearing on Scope Statement 11/12/19 completed; next public hearings planned for summer 2021
- NR 140 Cycle 10 Recommended Groundwater Enforcement Standards – public hearing completed on 11/12/19; next public hearings planned for summer/fall 2021
- NR 140 Cycle 11 Request from DNR to DHS for State Groundwater Quality Standard Recommendations – public hearing planned for spring 2022, then summer-winter 2022
- NR 151 (and limited for NR 243) Statement of Scope public hearings completed on 11/4/19, 11/6/19, and 11/7/19; next three public hearings planned for spring 2021. Links to audio recordings of the three hearings are posted on this page; scroll down to the Preliminary Public Hearing section and click on the links.
- NR 809 public hearing completed on 11/12/19; next public hearing planned summer 2021
- DATCP and State Legislative Hearing Activities – six public hearings by DATCP re: ATCP 51 proposed rule changes held on 8/15/19, 8/19/19, 8/20/19, 8/22/19, 9/4/19, 9/5/19
- DATCP Hearings Presentation
- Hearings Draft – Key Components to Proposed Revision – 7/10/19
- Comments Received During Formal Comment Period
- Comments Received Prior to 7/10/19 Board Meeting
- Joint Public Hearing re: AB 894/SB 808 held by Senate Committee on Agriculture, Revenue and Financial Institutions and Assembly Committee on Agriculture – 2/13/20 – no recording available
Standards
Groundwater Quality:
PFAS:
- EPA unveils strategy to regulate PFAS
- PFAS Proposed Rule – see this article for information on comments and public hearing
- The Rise of PFAS by Tommy Enright
- Cap Times article by Briana Reilly on the Biden administration’s potential action on PFAS
- DNR PFAS webpage
- Initial DNR rule-making steps which started in 2020
- DNR press release re: creating new PFAS standards
- NR 105 Surface Water Quality Criteria and Secondary Values for Toxic Substances
- NR 140 Groundwater Standards
- Ongoing update for NR 140 Groundwater Standards, in Cycle 10 Winter 2020-21
- NR 809 Safe Drinking Water
- Press release 6/10/20 re: 22-state coalition urging EPA to expand list of PFAS when setting drinking water standards
- Comments from 22-state coalition re: PFAS
- 2019 Act 101 prohibits the use of Class B and Class A/B firefighting foams that contain intentionally added per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), except in certain emergency and testing situations. More details here under the Act 101 heading.
Nitrate:
Livestock Siting
- ATCP 51 Standard
- Wisconsin Statute 93.90 – authorizes ATCP 51 Standard