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| 8/25/2005 | |
| Wisconsin’s lakes are unhealthy and overdevelopment is a principal cause. Despite the exponential increase in the amount of lakeside development over the last forty years, the statewide rules regulating shoreland development (NR115) have not been meaningfully updated since the 1960s. Overdevelopment causes many of the water quality problems we face today in Wisconsin, and unless this development is curbed, our lakes will continue to be endangered. | |
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| 4/11/2006 | |
| At last, springtime has come to Wisconsin. This season means many things to us in the Badger State: it’s the time for cookouts, bike rides, and beautiful days outdoors. But perhaps above all else, spring is the start of long, lovely days on the lake. Fishing, swimming, boating: these are the hallmarks of the warmer season in Wisconsin. | |
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| 3/30/2004 | |
| When drafting the Clean Water Act in 1972, legislators set the goals of making all waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983 and eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985. More than 30 years later, we are far from realizing the Clean Water Act’s original vision. | |
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| 3/23/2006 | |
| When drafting the Clean Water Act in 1972, legislators set the goals of making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983 and eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985. More than 30 years later, we are far from realizing the Clean Water Act’s original vision. | |
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| 11/19/2004 | |
| Thirty years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, Wisconsin’s waterways continue to be the dumping grounds for high levels of pollution. Weak enforcement of permit limits established under the Clean Water Act contributes to this pollution. | |
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| 10/11/2007 | |
| October 18, 2007 marks the 35th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a landmark law intended to restore and maintain the physical, chemical and biological integrity of the nation’s waters. In passing the Clean Water Act, Congress set the goals of eliminating the discharge of pollutants into the nation’s waterways by 1985 and making all U.S. waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983. Although we have made significant progress in improving water quality since the passage of the Clean Water Act, we are far from realizing the Act’s original vision. | |
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| 1/23/2007 | |
| From the Sugar River south of Madison to the Lake Michigan shoreline, the excess flow of runoff pollution into Wisconsin’s waterways has led to serious water quality problems, including impaired drinking water quality, degraded wildlife habitat and uncontrolled sewage overflows. These problems extend downstream, from contamination in the Great Lakes to the dead zone that forms every year at the mouth of the Mississippi River. | |
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