Municipalities Teaming Up to Protect Waterways from Excessive Nutrients

An ambitious urban-rural partnership takes an innovative approach to reduce phosphorus loading to lakes and streams around Wisconsin’s capital.
Municipalities Teaming Up to Protect Waterways from Excessive Nutrients
We’ve gone beyond the finger-pointing to a mentality that says we’re all in this together — let’s roll up our sleeves and get it done.”

Plant upgrades to meet new phosphorus permit  limits can cost clean-water agencies millions of dollars. In Wisconsin, the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is leading neighboring communities in an alternate, less costly and more effective approach.

Six cities,...

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