A northern Wisconsin college is working with various local, state and federal partners on a project to slow the flow of stormwater and reduce erosion in and around Superior.
Not even a year into a revision of state rules governing everything from erosion control to barbering, a Republican lawmaker said he is running into opposition from his own party.
When the state adopts its uniform erosion-control standards, Mark Etrheim said, he wants it to eliminate a La Crosse County rule forcing his company to lay down a gravel driveway before beginning work on a house.
Dane County is in danger of losing authority that for almost 11 years has let it tailor its erosion-control standards to protect resources such as lakes Mendota and Monona and trout streams.
Stevens Point-based Lexton Properties LLC and HH Condos LLC will pay $5,000 in fines and court costs after a Portage County Circuit Court ruled they failed to control erosion at three properties.
By Sean Ryan Edgerton Contractors Inc., which was on the losing end of a Wednesday appeals court decision, still could fight to recoup a $43,900 fee it paid Wauwatosa on a 2006 project. The Oak Creek-based contractor was the general ...