Published: July 14, 2010
Tags: BidBlog, blog, Cow-Power Project, Dane County, digester, Knoedler, phosphorous, Yahara Lakes Watershed
By Ann Knoedler
The dangers of phosphorous have long been recognized as bad news for our lakes and rivers. Algae thrives on it, which in turn prevents the healthy, native plants from growing and kills fish and other aquatic life by depleting the oxygen.
Slowly, but surely the march to ban phosphorous from household products is moving [...]
Published: June 16, 2010
Tags: Department of Agriculture, Farm Bill, fertilizer, Mississippi River, phosphorous, runoff, USDA
By
STEVE KARNOWSKI
Associated Press Writer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Farmers in the Upper Mississippi River basin have made significant progress in reducing sediment, fertilizer and pesticide runoff but need to do more to cut pollution to acceptable levels, according to a major U.S. Department of Agriculture study.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday the study establishes that good [...]
Published: November 27, 2009
Tags: Baumann, Bureau of Watershed Management, DNR, EPA, Lawton, Lyon, Midwest Environmental Advocates, Municipal Environmental Group, phosphorous, Rice Lake Utilities, Thom, U.S. Environmental Protection, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
Environmental groups can expect a fight if they follow through with their threat to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to encourage new rules regulating phosphorous levels in water.
Seven environmental organizations are trying to get the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources or EPA to mandate limits on the amount of phosphorous and nitrogen [...]
Published: November 24, 2009
Tags: Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Lawton, phosphorous, Thom, wastewater
By Sean Ryan
Public wastewater utilities argue they cannot afford projects to satisfy new phosphorous rules for water quality that environmental groups are demanding.
Seven environmental groups on Monday told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that they plan to sue the agency to force the EPA and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to approve new phosphorous rules.
The [...]
Published: July 28, 2009
Tags: Department of Natural Resources, development, phosphorous, pollution, St. Croix River, storm-water runoff
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Ten years of regulating storm-water runoff from new construction projects has not kept phosphorous from leaking into the St. Croix River.
The phosphorous, which commonly comes from fertilizer, is a problem because a pound of it can feed up to 300 pounds of algae, said Dan Baumann, waters program manager in the Wisconsin Department of [...]
