Published: March 16, 2010
Tags: Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Natural Resources Board, phosphorus
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Natural Resources Board has approved public hearings on new phosphorus limits in Wisconsin waters.
Biologists believe phosphorus and other nutrients from fertilizer and manure contributes to algae blooms in lakes, rivers and streams. The blooms can kill fish and insects and pose health risks for humans.
The Department of Natural Resources [...]
Published: March 16, 2010
Tags: Alliance of Cities, League of Wisconsin Municipalities, Local Government Institute of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Counties Association, Wisconsin Towns Association
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A coalition of groups representing local governments in Wisconsin plans on releasing a report that calls for greater consolidation and more efficiency.
The group calling itself the Local Government Institute of Wisconsin plans to release its plan at a Tuesday news conference.
Members of the group include the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, the [...]
Published: March 16, 2010
Tags: earthquake, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, New Madrid Seismic Zone, NMSZ
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin will join a massive Midwestern earthquake readiness drill next year.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been working with states in the New Madrid Seismic Zone on a earthquake response plan. The zone runs from west of Memphis, Tenn., into southern Illinois.
According to FEMA, a massive earthquake in the zone could [...]
Published: March 16, 2010
Tags: Commerce Department, foreclosures, homebuilders, new homes, permits
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Housing construction fell in February as winter blizzards held down activity in the Northeast and South. The decline highlighted the challenges facing builders as they struggle to emerge from the worst housing slump in decades.
The Commerce Department said Tuesday that construction of new homes and apartments fell 5.9 [...]
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: Amy Supple, Dan Stephans, Edgewater, Edgewater Hotel, Hammes Co., Madison, Madison Landmarks Commission, Madison Plan Commission, Madison Urban Design Commission, Michael May, redevelopment, Sarah Carpenter, Tim Parks
By Paul Snyder
Members of Madison’s Landmarks Commission want to review the latest Edgewater Hotel design and are ready to seek a legal opinion to force the issue.
“I wouldn’t rest a $93 million project on a process unless I was sure all the procedural steps were in line,” said Stu Levitan, a commission member who wants [...]
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: Badger Trail, Spencer Black
State Rep. Spencer Black announced Monday the state will request bids this week for construction to close a six-mile gap in the state’s Badger Trail.
Black, D-Madison, announced the state received more than $1 million in federal financing for the project, and coupled with a $497,000 state supplement, the money is in place to begin work. [...]
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: Federal Reserve, industrial production, inventories, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, manufacturing, MFR Inc., mining, Toyota, utilities
By Daniel Wagner
AP Business Writer
Washington — Industrial production edged up 0.1 percent in February, beating expectations and marking the eighth straight monthly increase. The manufacturing sector — for months a rare bright spot in the economy — produced less because of winter storms but is expected to rebound in March.
The Federal Reserve reported Monday that [...]
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: Carol Holden, DNR, in-line pond, Jonathan Ela, Kaukauna, League of Wisconsin Municipalities, Neumeier, retention, rule, runoff, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Witynski
By Sean Ryan
The detention pond design municipal officials say is the cheapest way to satisfy state requirements would be outlawed under the latest proposed runoff rules.
“You just start adding things up higher and higher if you don’t have that option on the table,” said John Neumeier, engineer and GIS specialist for Kaukauna.
The Wisconsin Department of [...]
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: Green Bay, Mullet Place, Pirlot, street sign
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The most frequently stolen street sign in Green Bay isn’t Lombardi Avenue, Reggie White Way or Brett Favre Pass.
The distinction goes to a short street on the city’s southwest side. Its name brings to mind the helmet-style haircut of the 1980s. The cut perhaps best personified by country music singer [...]
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: algae, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, fish, Madison Metropolitan Sewage District, Municipal Environmental Group Wastewater Division, Natural Resources Board, phosphorus, Sierra Club, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation
By TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press Writer
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin residents may soon pay more to flush the toilet but enjoy cleaner lakes, rivers and streams under a plan to more strictly regulate phosphorus pollution in state waterways.
The state Natural Resources Board is set Tuesday to approve public hearings on tougher limits on the pollution, which [...]
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