Living Proof

A biomonitoring program at the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District’s Nine Springs Treatment Plant yields evidence of water-quality improvement

The Madison (Wis.) Metropolitan Sewerage District has monitored the chemistry of the effluent leaving its Nine Springs Treatment Plant since the early 1940s. In 1983, the staff research biologist began shocking fish and looking at aquatic insects in the receiving streams as another...

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