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Vernon and Monroe counties discuss manure storage and management With farmers and DATCP JENNIFER HEATON-AMRHEIN, DATCP Chief, Land Resources Manage-ment Section/Land and Water Resources Bureau (right), and Lisa Trumble, DATCP Land and Water Resource Management Specialist (left), spoke to members of the Crawford County CAFO Study Group on March 12, in Prairie du Chien. Heaton-Amrhein participated in the joint meeting held by Vernon and ...

DAWS funding is approved by Land Conservation Committee Crawford County CRAWFORD COUNTY - At their January 12 meeting, the Crawford County Land Conservation Committee Soil and Water Concerns (LCC) voted unanimously to approve full funding for the spring testing for the Driftless Area Water Study. This means that the LCC will fully fund up to 100 additional well water tests in the spring of 2021. This will be a maximum cost of $5,500, with each test costing $5...

Counties’ water is well worth protecting Crawford, Vernon and Richland counties THIS MAP shows the dis-tribution of water sampling locations across the three counties. More wells will be sampled as part of the DAWS initiative in the spring of 2021. Crawford, Richland and Vernon counties embarked upon a study of well water quality following release of the Southwest Wisconsin Groundwater and Geology (SWIGG) study results. Those results...