Watersheds
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Lower Pecatonica River watershed (SP07)
The Lower Pecatonica River watershed is in southeastern Lafayette County. It is an agricultural watershed. As with many other watersheds in the basin, the Wisconsin DNR lacks water quality data about its streams. Some high-quality wetlands exist…
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Upper east branch Pecatonica River watershed (SP06)
The Upper East Branch Pecatonica River watershed lies in eastern Iowa County and a very small portion of western Dane County. The dominant land use is agricultural. Five municipal wastewater permittees discharge to surface water in the watershed:…
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Gordon Creek watershed (SP05)
The Gordon Creek watershed, in southwestern Dane, northwestern Green and southeastern Iowa counties, is an agricultural watershed in the Driftless Area of the state, with no incorporated areas in it. Polluted runoff problems exist in the watershed,…
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Yellowstone River watershed (SP04)
The Yellowstone River watershed is in northeastern Lafayette County and southern Iowa County. The watershed's land use is dominated by agriculture. A significant portion of publicly owned land exists in the watershed: About 800 acres in Yellowstone…
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Lower east branch Pecatonica River (SP03)
The Lower east branch Pecatonica River watershed, in the western part of Green County and northeastern Lafayette County, is a priority watershed project under the Wisconsin Nonpoint Source Water Pollution Abatement Program. A number of smaller trout…
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Jordan and Skinner creeks (SP02)
The Jordan and Skinner creeks watershed is located in southwest Green County. Agriculture is the dominant land use in the Jordan and Skinner creeks watershed. The only surface water permitted point source discharger is the community of…
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Honey and Richland creeks watershed (SP01)
The information on this site is from the 1995 Sugar Pecatonica basin plan. The Honey and Richland Creeks watershed in south-central Green County is primarily agricultural. Basin assessment monitoring of some of the streams in the watershed…
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Grant-Platte/Sugar-Pecatonica Basin Management
The Grant-Platte/Sugar-Pecatonica basin is actually two basins clumped together for the purposes of planning for and managing the resources. Water quality in the Grant-Platte/Sugar-Pecatonica basin is generally fair to good. The primary water…
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The Grant-Platte/Sugar-Pecatonica Basins
The Grant-Platte/Sugar-Pecatonica basins are located in the southwest corner of the state and are divided into the Grant and Platte River basins, which flow directly into the Mississippi and the Sugar-Pecatonica basin, which join in Illinois and…
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Southeast Fox Illinois River Basin
The Southeast Fox River basin is located in portions of seven counties, contains (entirely or portions of) 10 cities, 22 villages, 42 towns and is home to about 500,000 people. The basin is divided into seven watersheds. Three of the watersheds (…