Monitoring
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DNR Seeks Public Input On Water Quality Standards
The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is beginning a public input process to determine what issues it will work on over the next three years to protect water quality in lakes, streams and rivers.
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Help The DNR Plan For The Future Of 25 Wisconsin Watersheds
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is responsible for safeguarding clean waters. Still, the public is an active participant in helping identify protection and restoration priorities and implementing solutions.
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Final Year Of West Nile Virus Monitoring To Conclude This Fall
In collaboration with the Minnesota and Michigan Departments of Natural Resources, the Ruffed Grouse Society and Wisconsin Conservation Congress, the Wisconsin Department of Natural resources will conduct the third and final year of sampling in a multi-year monitoring program this fall looking at West Nile virus (WNV) in ruffed grouse.
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Enhancing Ozone Monitoring Across Wisconsin
As a nationally recognized leader in air quality monitoring, Wisconsin is paving the way for new monitoring techniques and tools; and people are watching.
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Citizen Lake Monitoring Network
Enter Data Log in to enter your data. The Citizen Lake Monitoring Network, the core of the Wisconsin Lakes Partnership, creates a bond between over 1,000 citizen volunteers statewide and the DNR. Our goals are to collect high quality data, to…
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Madison-Kipp Corporation Madison, Wisconsin
The Madison-Kipp Corporation web page has been archived. If you have any questions about the Madison-Kipp Corporation remediation, please contact Luke Lampo. Information is also available on the Bureau for Remediation and Redevelopment Tracking…
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Outstanding and Exceptional Resource Waters
Wisconsin has designated many of the state's highest quality waters as Outstanding Resource Waters (ORWs) or Exceptional Resource Waters (ERWs). Waters designated as ORW or ERW are surface waters that provide outstanding recreational opportunities,…
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Antidegradation
The antidegradation rule is implemented in Chapter NR 207 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code. The purpose of the rule is to address new or increased discharges to surface waters (river, lakes, drainage ways, wetlands, etc.). The way in which these…
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Surface Water Integrated Monitoring System (SWIMS) Database
Subscribe for updates about the SWIMS system The Surface Water Integrated Monitoring System (SWIMS) is a DNR system that holds chemistry (water, sediment, fish tissue) data, physical data, biological (macroinvertebrate, aquatic invasives) data…
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Sea lamprey and control efforts in Wisconsin
The sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, which is a descendant of the earliest known type of vertebrates, is a parasitic species of eel-like fish native to the Atlantic Ocean and the East Coast of North America. Because of their eel-like shape, lamprey…