In a water cleanup effort more complex than any other in the nation, virtually every community in the 360-square-mile watershed around Madison has agreed to pool resources with farmers to eliminate nutrient-driven weed and algae growths that limit use of lakes and streams.

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The state Department of Natural Resources has had new shore land zoning rules on the books for three years and has yet to enforce them.

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Lawmakers are prioritizing compromise with a bill that would make it easier for developers to damage one wetland during a project in exchange for restoring or creating another.

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A Republican-backed bill to change how projects near wetlands are regulated would streamline the application process, but Democrats say the legislation tackles a problem that doesn't exist.

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A third version of a bill that would streamline permitting for marine construction still includes a contentious presumptive approval requirement.

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Water conservationists, fearing a rubber stamp for developments, are urging lawmakers to reject a bill that would speed up Department of Natural Resources' permitting for marine projects.

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By Adam Wise Years of complaints from contractors that the state takes too long to permit marine projects have prompted a bill designed to speed up the approval process. The state Department of Natural Resources, according to the bill, only ...

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By Sean Ryan Green Bay engineers made a list of 70 city projects to satisfy state runoff rules, then rejected 50 as not worth the money. “Some of the projects that were initially proposed were infeasible, so to speak,” said ...

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By Paul Snyder Uncertainty is driving both sides of a debate over giving towns exemptions from state shore land rules. Opponents of a bill that would give the exemptions say more than 200 communities could be affected by the change. ...

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