Phosphorus Allies: Unraveling Wisconsin’s Dairy/Wastewater Connection

In the Dairy State, a new partnership is taking form: Municipalities and dairy farmers are teaming up to control phosphorus discharges. Here's how this novel approach is bringing point and nonpoint sources together.
Phosphorus Allies: Unraveling Wisconsin’s Dairy/Wastewater Connection
The University of Wisconsin's Discovery Farms is focused on the relationship between farms and water quality. Here, farmers get an opportunity to tour a Green Bay wastewater treatment plant.

Phosphorus — a water-quality nemesis and the target of tighter treatment regulations — might actually be bringing point-source and nonpoint source dischargers together.

That’s especially true in Wisconsin, where a new development is designed to promote cooperation between...

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