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Vernon and Monroe counties discuss manure storage and management With farmers and DATCP JENNIFER HEATON-AMRHEIN, DATCP Chief, Land Resources Manage-ment Section/Land and Water Resources Bureau (right), and Lisa Trumble, DATCP Land and Water Resource Management Specialist (left), spoke to members of the Crawford County CAFO Study Group on March 12, in Prairie du Chien. Heaton-Amrhein participated in the joint meeting held by Vernon and Monroe counties. VERNON AND MONROE COUNTIES - Vernon and Monroe counties took another step toward pursuing updates and revisions to their manure storage ordinances. The two counties held a joint meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 24, and heard a presentation from DATCP’s Land Resource Management Section Chief Jennifer Heaton-Amrhein. ....
CRAWFORD, VERNON AND RICHLAND COUNTIES - The Driftless Area Water Study (DAWS) will conduct their second round of well water testing in Crawford, Vernon and Richland counties on Monday, April 19. The three counties, each doing something slightly different, are moving ahead now with recruiting participants for the Spring 2021 event. ....
Streambank restoration design standards under review TROUT UNLIMITED will forge forward with streambank restoration projects in 2021 like this one completed in 2020 on Citron Creek, Crawford County, on the farm of Don Dudenbostel. Increasing precipitation, as well as drought pose problems for these efforts, especially before the plantings meant to hold the banks become established. DRIFTLESS - In recent years, with large rainfall events becoming more common, professionals overseeing streambank restoration efforts have been struggling to revise their project planning to withstand heavier precipitation. In Crawford County, the Land Conservation Department is taking a pause on planning new larger projects. In recent years, their team has done the projects only to see them blown out by a large precipitation event. Other counties in the area are changing the specifications of projects to make the installations more resilient to large ....
Counties’ water is well worth protecting Crawford, Vernon and Richland counties THIS MAP shows the dis-tribution of water sampling locations across the three counties. More wells will be sampled as part of the DAWS initiative in the spring of 2021. Crawford, Richland and Vernon counties embarked upon a study of well water quality following release of the Southwest Wisconsin Groundwater and Geology (SWIGG) study results. Those results showed significant problems with drinking water quality in Grant, Iowa and Lafayette counties. The DAWS team, composed of Land Conservation Department staff, Public Health Staff, and private conservation group members from the three counties, met for over a year to prepare to launch the study. Securing the funding to conduct two rounds of testing took some time and effort. The first round was originally scheduled for April of 2020, but was postponed to late October due to th ....