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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Wauwatosa Providing Expertise in Clean Water Initiative

Wauwatosa is one 10 communities who will be working together to address water pollutants by using each other's strengths.

Wauwatosa is one of 10 communities who adopted a watershed stormwater permit that will have the communities working together to address pollutants, reported Wauwatosa Now. The program is promoted by Southeastern Wisconsin Wastersheds Trust Inc., known as Sweet Water. A watershed-based permit is designed to address the runoff to an entire water system. This new permit encourages communities to work together using communities' strengths. Wauwatosa's strengths are in green rooftops, rain gardens and bioswales. For example, Maggie Anderson, a civil engineer with the city of Wauwatosa, told Wauwatosa Now that the city might help Menomonee Falls with an erosion problem. Other municipalities participating in the program include Brookfield, …

jeff martinka

5:37 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013

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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Regional Ad Campaign Aims To Stop Water Pollution

Who's the biggest contributor to water pollution? It might surprise you after you read this story, but the good news is, it's fixable.

Water pollution is a problem that needs to be fixed household-by-household, and a new public service campaign aims to teach you how you can help. Sweet Water (the Southeastern Wisconsin Watersheds Trust) and Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network (Root-Pike WIN) kicked off a 12-week television advertising campaign that features a puppet, Sparkles the Water Spaniel, “to emphasize bad and good human behavior.” Jeff Cesario, a comedian who lives in Kenosha, does the voice of Sparkles, according to a press release. “What many residents don’t understand is that anything that washes into storm sewers goes directly into our area rivers and then into Lake Michigan,” explains Susan Greenfield, executive director of the Root-Pike WIN. “That means, …

Peter Maier

10:29 am on Saturday, July 7, 2012

Of course there is this type of pollution coming from other sources, as we are dealing with element cycles. BUT that is not the issue. The issue is that Congress passed the Clean water Act with the goal to eliminate all water pollution by 1985 and that did not happen because, when EPA set sewage treatment requirements it used an essential test incorrect and ignored all the pollution caused by …   more ›

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