Protecting Wisconsin’s Waters: Better Oversight of Development is Necessary to Prevent Runoff Pollution (PDF; 967 KB)
Source: American Rivers
From press release:

The report, Protecting Wisconsin’s Waters: Better Oversight of Development is Necessary to Prevent Runoff Pollution, finds that weak enforcement practices at the Department of Commerce (which oversees commercial construction sites) allow developers to skip required runoff prevention measures.

“Construction sites can operate in ways that reduce stormwater runoff and protects Wisconsin’s rivers,” said Gary Belan, Associate Director of American Rivers’ Healthy Waters campaign. “Unfortunately, this isn’t happening consistently in Wisconsin.”

These weak enforcement practices will have serious consequences for water quality in areas of the state that are expected to grow and develop rapidly, such as Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay and central and western communities like Plover, Onalaska and Eau Claire. If development continues at even half the pace as in the past, the amount of built-up land in Wisconsin could increase by about 12 percent by 2020, a construction site one and a half times the size of Milwaukee county.

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