
Evers Wants Nearly $70M in Bonding to Address Water Quality
Gov. Tony Evers wants to let environmental officials borrow nearly $70 million more over the next two years to address groundwater contamination. Gov. Tony Evers will call for allowing state environmental and agricultural officials to borrow nearly $70 million more over the next two years to combat water pollution and replace lead pipes in his first state budget, following through on his pledge to attack drinking water contamination during his first year in office.... See Also: 5 things Madison will do to fix contaminated wells ...more Ken Notes: NUMBER 6: The county should be proactive rather than reactive by requiring CAFO`s digest waste and heat/dry the effluent. Crave Farms has a model that works. If we allow large herds to replace family farms we are inviting watershed and well problems without forward thinking solutions. Share this comment with your county rep. or exec. and suggest someone take charge. Re the lead pipes, many communities have worked this into their long range planning and EVERY community should now do so. It took us 100 years to get here so an overnight fix will not work. Also in the meantime DO NOT CHANGE your water treatment systems at all. It is these changes that expose the lead in the system.
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Evers Wants Nearly $70M in Bonding to Address Water Quality

Gov. Tony Evers wants to let environmental officials borrow nearly $70 million more over the next two years to address groundwater contamination.

Gov. Tony Evers will call for allowing state environmental and agricultural officials to borrow nearly $70 million more over the next two years to combat water pollution and replace lead pipes in his first state budget, following through on his pledge to attack drinking water contamination during his first year in office....

See Also:

5 things Madison will do to fix contaminated wells

...more

Ken Notes: NUMBER 6: The county should be proactive rather than reactive by requiring CAFO`s digest waste and heat/dry the effluent. Crave Farms has a model that works. If we allow large herds to replace family farms we are inviting watershed and well problems without forward thinking solutions. Share this comment with your county rep. or exec. and suggest someone take charge.

Re the lead pipes, many communities have worked this into their long range planning and EVERY community should now do so. It took us 100 years to get here so an overnight fix will not work. Also in the meantime DO NOT CHANGE your water treatment systems at all. It is these changes that expose the lead in the system.

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