Published: November 25, 2009
Tags: Clean Water Action Council of Northeastern Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources, DNR, Fort James Operating Co., Katers, Kravit, lawsuit, Sawyer Creek, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Utica Energy LLC, wastewater
By Sean Ryan
Utica Energy LLC has settled two cases over the same wastewater permit violations — a situation an attorney for the company says amounts to overkill.
First, the Oshkosh ethanol producer settled Wisconsin Department of Justice charges by agreeing to finish a $200,000 project to build a pipe so Utica’s wastewater can be sent to [...]
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: November 6, 2009
Tags: Ace Ethanol LLC, discharge, DNR, ethanol, lawsuit, Morby, olsen, permit, Sawyer Creek, Utica, Utica Energy, Utica Energy LLC, wastewater, Wisconsin Bio Industry Alliance, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
By Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Utica Energy LLC’s decision to settle wastewater charges is the latest example of a growing problem between ethanol producers and Wisconsin regulators.
Utica Energy, which operates an ethanol plant in the town of Utica, will pay the state $280,000 to settle charges that the company illegally discharged polluted wastewater from its plant into [...]
Published: May 4, 2009
Tags: sewage, stimulus, wastewater
Michael Tarm
AP Writer
Carbon Hill, IL — Sewage from toilets flows in open ditches here, spilling into backyards and even onto the lone baseball diamond where children play after school. The nose-wrinkling stench carries throughout this century-old, one-diner village outside Chicago.
It’s a wastewater nightmare that the mayor, Mike Cerny, and officials in similarly hard-pressed communities around [...]
Published: May 1, 2009
Tags: Clean Water Fund Program, Department of Natural Resources, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Rhinelander, Ruekert & Mielke Inc., sewer, stimulus, wastewater
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Rhinelander’s $34 million stimulus money request for sewer system projects is on the bubble.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is giving Wisconsin $105.9 million to parse out as grants to sewer and water-treatment projects. The state’s Clean Water Fund Program, which offers low-interest loans for wastewater projects, will distribute the federal grant money.
The [...]
