By Sean Ryan New federal runoff rules will unnecessarily increase road construction costs, according to a national road builder association. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s storm-water runoff rules for construction sites will apply to road expansion projects. Contractors working on ...

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By Sean Ryan A new federal runoff rule guarantees that contractors and developers will add a position to many construction sites in Wisconsin: water quality tester. “The one kind of negative thing, from our perspective, is that because there is ...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday it aims to stop agricultural runoff in 41 watersheds in 12 states from ending up in the Mississippi River. According to the department, it has $320 million for farmers ...

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MADISON – The state Natural Resources Board has given the go-ahead for public hearings on proposed changes to state runoff rules for agricultural farms, municipalities and developers. The hearings will be held in early 2010, with dates and locations being ...

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By Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Municipal officials see a proposed change in state runoff rules as flexibility. But to a clean water advocate, it looks more like a loophole. The state runoff rules, created in 2004, are intended to decrease the ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com The threat of thousands of dollars in penalties does not scare two village officials who refuse to meet state requirements to remove dirt from rain runoff. The state can penalize the village of Kimberly until the fee ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Regional flood-prevention rules designed to add only a little to development costs actually will add a lot, according to city planners who did the math. A panel of municipal engineers from the 28 communities served by the ...

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Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Regulators have a stern message for contractors: If you ignore runoff and storm-water rules, we’ll see you in court. This week, the Wisconsin Department of Justice settled two cases against property owners and contractors that violated state ...

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Melissa Rigney Baxter Special to The Daily Reporter Sometimes Mother Nature knows best. Technological advances in concrete and filtration are offering new methods for managing runoff from highways. But rain gardens and ponds remain among the most effective ways to ...

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Dustin Block dustin.block@dailyreporter.com Bill Berndt’s joke that home construction on farmland will reduce pollution in the lower St. Croix River is grounded in reality. The government affairs director for the St. Croix Valley Home Builders Association said fertilizer on farm ...

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