Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Scott Walker's legacy as governor: Dragging his heels on groundwater contamination


Quality Liquid Feeds gives exclusively 
to GOP/conservative candidates

QLF is located in Dodgeville (Iowa County).

Hazardous drinking water found in 42% of southwest Wisconsin wells.  (WIsconsin State Journal, 1/2/2018)
A tainted legacy.  Gov. Scott Walker in 2018 [in his 8th year as governor, ruuning for a third termapproved stricter standards for disposal of manure in 15 eastern Wisconsin counties that have vulnerable groundwater. Conservation groups argued similar conditions exist in southwest Wisconsin, but that region isn’t covered by the new standards. 
Walker’s DNR declined to participate in the three-county study, said Scott Laeser, water program director for the nonprofit Clean Wisconsin, which helped coordinate funding. A DNR spokesman declined to comment.

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