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April 25, 2005

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• PA, NJ, DE, MD, NY: Celva Corp.:  Salesman
• NJ: Ozonia North America: Sales Engineer
• NV: Washoe County: Utility Operations Manager
• NV: Las Vegas Valley Water District: Civil Engineer/Civil Engineer P.E.
• NM: City of Santa Fe: Water Resource Project Coordinator
• CA: City of Anaheim: Principal Accountant - Public Utilities
• CA: Eastern Municipal Water District: Potable Water Treatment Operator
• CA: Orange County Sanitation District: Director of Finance
   

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National/International News

—  Great Lakes News

• Invaders in ships' ballast targeted
  (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 04/17) "It has been nearly 17 years since a college student on a field trip plucked the first zebra mussel from the waters of the Great Lakes, signaling the first wave of an invasion that has likely altered forever the world's largest freshwater system and is costing an estimated $3 billion per decade in economic damages to regional industries."
  
  
• New study finds danger riding in ship water tanks
  (Muskegon Chronicle, 04/19) "Oceangoing freighters which are supposed to be clean before entering the Great Lakes carry billions of foreign organisms into the freshwater seas each year, including saltwater algae, invertebrates and potentially deadly bacteria."
  
  
• MGriffin Forum highlights concerns about survival of Great Lakes
  (Central Michigan Life, 04/20) "A forum of environmental panelists told the audience in the Bovee University Center Auditorium Tuesday night that a number of factors threaten Michigan’s water."
  
  
• Great Lakes oil and gas drilling ban is blocked
  (WZZM13, 04/21) "A House committee Wednesday killed a plan to permanently ban oil and gas drilling on the Great Lakes, the source of one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water."
  

—  Water Supply

• Devils Lake outlet opponents want court to bar water diversion
  (Duluth News Tribune, 04/19) "North Dakota's Supreme Court should halt operation of a Devils Lake water outlet because it will permanently damage the Sheyenne and Red rivers while providing little flood relief, an attorney says."
  
  
• London mayor blocks salt water proposal
  (BBC News, 04/19) "Ken Livingstone said the proposed £200m desalination plant by the River Thames in Beckton, east London, would consume too much energy."
  
  
• Security costs drain funds for water projects in Iraq
  (USA Today, 04/21) "As summer marches into this dusty desert country, few things become more important than a tall, cool drink of water."
  
  
• Chlorine leak at Fl. plant leads to reverse 9-1-1 error
  (WFTV, 04/21) "A chlorine leak at a Volusia County water plant caused confusion and panic Thursday when efforts to warn people nearby backfired."
  
  
• Colorado River states meet next week on Lake Powell releases
  (Summit Daily News, 04/21) "The federal government will be forced to settle the short-term question of how water from the Colorado River water will be divided for the next six months among Arizona and six other states."
  
  
• Water supply critical for Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
  (Indian Country Today, 04/22) "Water on the Cheyenne River Reservation and surrounding communities is at a critically low level, bringing tribal officials and county and community leaders together to find a solution."
  

—  Water Quality

• USDA grants $3.1 million for water protection
  (High Plains Journal, 04/19) "The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced a $3.1 million grant to the nonprofit National Rural Water Association (NRWA) for continuation of the Source Water Protection Program."
  
  
• NSF International releases drinking water certification guide
  (NSF International, 04/20) "NSF International announced today the availability of a new Certification Guide for Drinking Water Treatment Systems and Components."
  
  
• Calif. authorities OK recycled water for aquifer
  (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, 04/21) "State authorities have authorized local water agencies to pump recycled water back into the groundwater basin that serves Inland Valley cities from Pomona to Fontana."
  

—  MTBE

• House approves energy bill - protects MTBE makers from lawsuits
  (CNN, 04/21) "The House approved a broad energy bill Thursday aimed at boosting domestic production, including provisions to allow oil drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge and to shield makers of a gasoline additive from water contamination lawsuits."
  
   
• House retains MTBE provision that would soak water consumers
  (US Newswire, 04/21) AWWA News Release. "The U.S. House of Representatives today approved an Energy Bill that includes a provision granting gasoline makers defective product liability immunity in cases where water has been contaminated by the additive MTBE."
   

—  Water Resources

• NASA uses radar to detect coastal pollution
  (Science Daily, 04/17) "A NASA-funded study of marine pollution in Southern California concluded space-based synthetic aperture radar can be a vital observational tool for assessing and monitoring ocean hazards in urbanized coastal regions."
  
  
• S.C. health agency criticized for delayed pollution warning
  (The State, 04/22) "South Carolina’s public health agency knew in mid-March that a wastewater plant was pumping contaminated sewage into a Lexington County creek, but it took three weeks for the department to warn people about the pollution."
  

—  Wastewater

• Atlanta's sewer jobs are $90M over plan
  (MSNBC, 04/17) "Two projects in the major overhaul of the city of Atlanta's sewer system are nearly $90 million over budget -- and the construction contracts haven't even been awarded yet."
  
  
• EPA secures cesspool closures in Hawaii
  (Pacific Business News, 04/21) "The EPA has announced agreements with five federal, state and county agencies to close 401 large cesspools in Hawaii pursuant to Safe Drinking Water Act regulations."
  

—  Hazardous/Toxic Waste

• BLM closes all public land access at polluted Yerington mine
  (Las Vegas Sun, 04/20) "Citing safety concerns and environmental hazards, federal managers said Wednesday they are banning access to all the public lands that make up nearly half of a large, polluted copper mine in northern Nevada."
  

—  Meetings

• Applying and Implementing Asset Management Practices to Water and Wastewater Utility Management
  (UW News Release, 04/16) May 16-17. "This new course is your opportunity to focus on asset management practices, a key issue facing water and wastewater utilities in the United States. Asset management is the emerging business model for U.S. water and wastewater utilities."
  
  
• National Ground Water Association: MTBE-Perchlorate Conference
  (Pollution Online, 04/16) May 26-27. "The National Ground Water Association (NGWA) will hold a special conference on engineered solutions for handling perchlorate and MTBE contamination in ground water on May 26-27, 2005 in San Francisco, California at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins hotel."
  
  
• 2005 Annual Technical Education Conference and Exposition
  (NOWRA, 04/16) Oct. 10-13. "A call for symposium papers has begun for a post-conference session at the National Onsite Wastewater Annual Technical Education Conference and Exposition to be held Oct. 10-13, 2005."
  

—  Everything Else

• Report: Investing in water produces substantial gain
  (SIWI, 04/18) PDF. "A report released yesterday by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) indicates that investments in water can be an engine for accelerated economic growth, sustainable development, improved health and reduced poverty."
  

Illinois

—  Water Supply

• Peoria water buyout could affect surrounding towns
  (WHOI, 04/20) "A Peoria water buyout will impact Peoria residents as well as other smaller communities - like the village of Hanna City - because it gets water pumped in from Illinois-American."
  
  

• DuPage lake-tapping at issue
  (Chicago Tribune, 04/21) "DuPage County officials are studying the feasibility of connecting some or all of the six small, unincorporated water systems that the county operates to the DuPage Water Commission's Lake Michigan water system."
  
  

• End Peoria water buyout before it begins
  (Peoria Journal Star, 04/21) Editorial. "The Peoria City Council's 6-5 vote to proceed with the purchase of water company assets confounds logic and fiscal sense."
  
  

• Peoria Council's vote leaves water buyout door open
  (Peoria Journal Star, 04/21) "By one vote, the City Council decided Tuesday to continue pursuing a possible buyout of its division of Illinois American Water."
  

—  Water Resources

• Water resources legislation backed by soybean, corn groups
  (Agri News, 04/17) "The American Soybean Association and National Corn Growers Association strongly support the Water Resources Development Act legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., to provide $2.475 billion for construction of seven new locks and other improvements on the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers."
  
  
• Highland Park kids paste up stickers to stem lake pollution
  (Chicago Tribune, 04/19) "A group of Highland Park 7th graders armed with glue, brushes and gloves took a field trip Monday to a storm sewer in front of the county building in Waukegan to try to help save Lake Michigan."
  
  
• Area in Randolph County approved for land, water reserve
  (Chester Suntimes News, 04/19) "The Illinois Nature Preserves Commission announced the dedication of additions to three nature preserves and approval of land and water reserve registrations for lands at six sites throughout Illinois including one in Randolph County."
  
  
• Options exist for re-watering I & M Canal through Channahon
  (Morris Daily Herald, 04/19) "Trustees at Monday night’s village board meeting learned of several options to re-water Channahon’s stretch of the Illinois and Michigan Canal."
  

—  Wastewater

• Galesburg sewer construction faces brief delay
  (Peoria Journal Star, 04/20) "Construction of a downtown storm sewer system expected to cost about $3.3 million will be delayed for several weeks as the city resubmits a modified project and seeks lower bids."
  

—  Hazardous/Toxic Waste

• Cleanup will begin on Jennison-Wright site in Granite City
  (Edwardsville Intelligencer, 04/16) "The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that remedial cleanup activities at the abandoned Jennison-Wright site in Granite City will begin at once."
  
  
• Peoria sewer rates going up May 1
  (Peoria Journal Star, 04/20) "The cost of flushing the toilet is going up by 5 percent on May 1 and another 10 percent in November."
  
  
• Agreement details final toxic cleanup of West Chicago site
  (Chicago Tribune, 04/21) "Kerr-McGee Chemical will pay $74 million to clean up and restore two radioactive sites in and around West Chicago, according to a consent decree filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago."
  

Indiana

—  Water Supply

• Kouts to issue bonds for water projects
  (NWI Times, 04/19) "When it comes to finding funding for water projects, the Town Council decided it's better to bond than raise water rates."
  

—  Infrastructure

• Lansing interstate work breaking sewer, water lines
  (NWI Times, 04/22) "Dorothy Rossi's $167 plumbing bill will be a drop in the ocean of the village's growing unforeseen cost in the widening of Interstate 80/94."
  

—  Stormwater

• Grimmer wins bid for Dyer stormwater project
  (NWI Times, 04/21) "The Dyer Town Council awarded a bid for major infrastructure work to Grimmer Construction of Highland."
  

—  Water Resources

• Public hears results of The Pines groundwater study
  (NWI Times, 04/20) "About a hundred residents gathered Tuesday evening to hear the results of a water study conducted by the United States Geological Survey office that began last August."
  
  
• Galien cleanup under way
  (South Bend Tribune, 04/21) "The Conservation Fund and the Berrien County Health Department, partners in a Galien River cleanup campaign, are focused in on failed septic systems and old homes that still use the once-popular direct-connection between septic pipes and local creeks."
  
  
• East Chicago dredging project gets second risk assessment
  (NWI Times, 04/21) "Even as towering walls are being built to hold polluted mud dredged from the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, federal regulators are taking a second look at the project's possible effects on residents' health."
  

—  Wastewater

• Columbia City discusses wastewater finances
  (Columbia City Post & Mail, 04/18) "Two topics of discussion consumed the majority of Friday's Columbia City Board of Works Utility Board meeting: the wastewater department's finances and the Long Term Control Plan."
  
  
• Cedar Lake approves sewer connections
  (NWI Times, 04/21) "The Town Council gave the nod to Hawk Development's request for 150 sewer taps for the Lynn's Way subdivision off Parrish Avenue, but not everyone was happy about it."
  
  
• Open house planned at Warsaw wastewater plant
  (Warsaw Times-Union, 04/21) "Assistant operator Brian Davidson said the plant is taking in 1.2 million to 1.3 million gallons of wastewater per day. The facility has a capacity of 3.9 million gallons. The old plant in Boggs Industrial Park still collects about a million gallons per day."
  

—  Hazardous/Toxic Waste

• No reason to dump waste oil, Muncie official says
  (Muncie Star Press, 04/19) "'There's no reason for something like this to happen,' David LePoris said in an interview after the discovery of a leaking, 55-gallon drum of waste oil in a ditch."
  

—  Air Quality

• Environmentalist says ozone rules manipulated
  (Evansville Courier and Press, 04/20) "Air in Vanderburgh and Warrick counties would not be considered healthy if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stuck to the specific criteria of its latest ozone pollution standard, environmentalist John Blair told state officials Tuesday."
  

—  Everything Else

• Pollution bill would keep state from having tougher rules than EPA
  (Indianapolis Star, 04/16) "Indiana environmental boards would be forbidden to adopt pollution rules stricter than those set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under a bill that has outraged environmental groups and a top Republican senator."
  

Michigan

—  Water Supply

• Detroit's East Jefferson area sees second main break
  (Detroit News, 04/17) Scroll down. "A 6-inch Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water main break along East Jefferson Avenue had to be repaired this week in the same area where a 42-inch water main ruptured April 5, disrupting traffic, schools and businesses."
  
  
• Leaks discovered in Saline water-softening system tubes
  (Ann Arbor News, 04/18) "Tuesday was supposed to be the historic date that Saline's new water treatment system became fully functional. But now city officials say that date will be April 27."
  
  
• Mattawan informed state won't grant arsenic plan
  (Paw Paw Courier Leader, 04/18) "With the state's Department of Environmental Quality imposing stricter guidelines for the amount of arsenic found in drinking water, the Mattawan Village Council was informed Monday night that the state DEQ will not consider an extension of time to develop an arsenic removal treatment to the village's water supply."
  
  
• Drilling well in Manton becomes challenge
  (Cadillac News, 04/19) "Rita McNamara's old two-inch well on 41 1/2 Road went out 11 days ago."
  
  
• Montague Twp. strikes 'gold' with its new fresh water find
  (Muskegon Chronicle, 04/19) "Montague Township's years-long search for a fresh source of water that could be run to several residential neighborhoods where sources were contaminated is a success. "Gold" has been struck -- liquid gold, that is."
  
  
• DEQ reaches agreement with MILDCO, Inc., Liberty Twp. over well
  (Michigan DEQ, 04/20) "On April 14, 2005 the Department of Environmental Quality reached an agreement with MILDCO, Inc. to put into effect the requirements set forth in an Order issued by the Supervisor of Wells on September 3, 2004."
  
  
• Developer sues Sylvan over soft water dispute
  (Ann Arbor News, 04/21) "A mobile home park developer has sued Sylvan Township and its public utility agency over what the developer alleges is breach of contract and fraud for failing to deliver soft water."
  
  
• Gaines Township imposes watering limits
  (Grand Rapids Press, 04/21) "The township is implementing lawn watering restrictions three months earlier than usual."
  

—  Water Resources

• Applications sought for $6M in water quality improvement grants
  (Michigan DEQ, 04/19) "Approximately $6 million for water quality improvement projects is available through a grant application package under the Clean Water Fund, which is a portion of the Clean Michigan Initiative."
  
  
• Mill Creek dam removal is a complicated matter
  (Ann Arbor News, 04/19) "For 181 years, the Mill Creek Pond dam has been part of Dexter's landscape and ecology, but the talk of the town these days is what life would be like without it."
  
  
• Environmentalists urge Marathon cleanup in Muskegon Twp.
  (Muskegon Chronicle, 04/19) "Since Marathon Oil Co.'s proposal that it be exempted from some cleanup of groundwater contamination in Muskegon Township was rejected last month, environmentalists have pushed for more action against the firm."
  
  
• Kentwood to clean Old Farm pond
  (Grand Rapids Press, 04/21) "City officials are seeking bids to clean up the Old Farm Park pond."
  

—  Hazardous/Toxic Waste

• Saginaw Twp. proposal muddies the waters of dioxin debate
  (Bay City Times, 04/20) "A Saginaw Township entrepreneur's offer to buy property along the Tittabawassee River has stirred the pot in the debate over dioxin."
  
  
• DEQ adds regulated waste to MiTAPS on-line permitting
  (Michigan DEQ, 04/20) "The Department of Environmental Quality recently added a new application to the Michigan Timely Application and Permit Service (MiTAPS), Michigan’s one-stop shop for businesses and industry to search for needed permits and apply on line."
  
  
• DEQ loan program helps Fenton dry cleaner
  (Michigan DEQ, 04/21) "Department of Environmental Quality Director Steven E. Chester announced today that a pollution prevention project proposed by Dixie Cleaners of Fenton has received a $48,000 low interest loan through the DEQ’s Small Business Pollution Prevention Loan Program."
  
  
• Muskegon County cleanups helping, but problems remain
  (Muskegon Chronicle, 04/22) "Michelle Morningstar spent many summer days in the 1970s swimming in White Lake, often joking with friends about how the water sometimes changed from blue to red in a bay near the former Whitehall Leather Co. tannery."
  

—  Landfill/Solid Waste

• Oshtemo residents criticize EPA landfill plan
  (Kalamazoo Gazette, 04/21) "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials who are preparing to sneak up on an aging Oshtemo ogre were urged Wednesday night by township residents to let the slumbering giant lie."
  

Minnesota

—  Water Supply

• Deal keeps more water in Island Lake
  (Duluth News Tribune, 04/18) "A compromise has been struck to keep Island Lake from looking like a moonscape during dry years."
  

—  Water Resources

• Cliffs-Erie fined for water violations
  (Duluth News Tribune, 04/16) "Cliffs-Erie LLC has paid a $56,000 fine to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency after a million gallons of coal-ash-soaked water leaked out of a holding pond at the company's Taconite Harbor shipping facility on Lake Superior."
  
  
• Coon Rapids Dam repair decried
  (St. Paul Pioneer Press, 04/16) "Fans of boating near the Coon Rapids Dam have a message: Give us back our river!"
  
  
• Minnehaha Creek Watershed District
  (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 04/16) Q & A. "Keeping water clean before it gets into Lake Minnetonka and then into Minnehaha Creek is the strategy behind the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District's new land conservation program."
  
  
• Association kicks off Otter Tail lakes sampling program
  (Fergus Falls Journal, 04/21) "The Coalition of Lakes Association meeting this Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Ottertail Community Center will be the '[summer] kick-off for the coalition and the time when the [lake] samplers will receive their sampling kits for the year,' said president Le Boyer."
  
  
• Bugged and bogged down by stormwater fees
  (Minneapolis Star Tribune, 04/21) Column. "Jan Gustafson has lived in northeast Minneapolis for 50 years, since she and her late husband, Carl, bought Carl's parents' home in 1955. If the city's new storm-water fee doesn't bankrupt her, she'd like to stay there."
  
  
• MPCA OKs deeper environment spending cuts
  (St. Paul Pioneer Press, 04/22) "The MPCA identified several options, including eliminating 14 water-monitoring stations in the Twin Cities and the Minnesota River basin, ending its annual State of the Minnesota River Report, and taking more time to issue wastewater treatment plant permits."
  

—  Wastewater

• Hibbing looks at mercury level problems
  (Hibbing Daily Tribune, 04/19) "Before the city moves forth with a study to help address mercury level problems entering the waste water treatment plant, councilors want to know how much support they can rely on from the Hibbing Public Utilities."
  
  
• Brainerd, Baxter talk over wastewater issues
  (Brainerd Dispatch, 04/21) "Disputes over the future wastewater plant in Brainerd and Baxter were taken into a sort of therapy session Wednesday."
  

—  Landfill/Solid Waste

• Crosslake Landfill odor issue discussed
  (Brainerd Dispatch, 04/22) "Rotten-egg aromas emanating from a demolition landfill in Crosslake brought residents to city hall for a special meeting Thursday afternoon."
  

Ohio

—  Water Supply

• EPA fines Risingsun school for failing to check water
  (Toledo Blade, 04/19) "A private school in Risingsun has been fined $15,000 by state regulators for failing to monitor its drinking water for the past two years."
  

—  Water Resources

• Bridgeport creeks need dredging
  (Times Leader, 04/21) "Bridgeport mayor John J. Callarik is gathering a group of dignitaries on Friday afternoon at 2 p.m. to view the devastation caused to the creeks and streams by the September floods, he's hoping to find another way to finance the dredging of those waterways."
  
  
• 'Noble warrior' protects precious streams
  (Cincinnati Enquirer, 04/21) "A youthful looking 83-year-old Avondale native who is an avid canoe racer and completed the Boston Marathon each of the past two years, Fremont was working to preserve America's rivers long before there was a Clean Water Act, before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was created, and before Earth Day was born."
  
  
• Ohio waterways face two pollution threats
  (Detroit Free Press, 04/22) "An Ohio river has landed on a list of the nation's 10 most endangered rivers. The reason behind the ranking remains in question."
  

—  Wastewater

• EPA approves wastewater discharge into Rocky Fork
  (Hillsboro Times Gazette, 04/18) "The Ohio EPA has approved a permit for the South Beach Mobile Home Park to discharge up to 2,000 gallons of treated wastewater per day into an unnamed tributary of Rocky Fork Lake. The tributary empties directly into the lake."
  
  
• Ottawa County awarded grant to improve sewer system
  (ODOD News Release, 04/19) "Lieutenant Governor Bruce Johnson today announced that Ottawa County will receive a $323,200 grant to improve its sewer system."
  

—  Hazardous/Toxic Waste

• Akron dirt detectives assess land condition before sale
  (Akron Beacon Journal, 04/18) "Buried gasoline tanks. Pipes wrapped in asbestos. Leaks from hydraulic equipment. Spills of chlorinated solvents. They're all nasty but common forms of contamination found in many industrial and commercial sites in the Akron area."
  
  
• Luckey residents fear delay in berylium site cleanup
  (Toledo Blade, 04/21) "Like many Luckey-area residents, Steve Shaffer has waited years for the Army Corps of Engineers to begin its long-promised cleanup of a former beryllium production plant on the edge of this Wood County village."
  
  
• Brentwood Estates cleanup expected to be complete by June
  (Hamilton Journal-News, 04/22) "The clean-up of lead contamination found on 11 properties in the Brentwood Estates subdivision in Fairfield Township is expected to be completed by June, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said Wednesday."
   

—  Landfill/Solid Waste

• $400,000 may not be enough for Tiffin landfill
  (Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune, 04/19) "The City of Tiffin may have to spend more than $400,000 for this year to remediate an old city landfill on CR 90."
  
  
• Our Lives Count spells out landfill problem for Warren
  (Vindy.com, 04/20) "A citizens group concerned about emissions from the Warren Hills landfill is trying to get its message across in a big way. Our Lives Count has placed a large billboard ad at Chestnut Avenue and Youngstown Road (U.S. Route 422) Southeast."
  

Wisconsin

—  Water Supply

• Private wells in Gibson, Kossuth may get tested
  (Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, 04/19) "Water screening of private wells for nitrates is scheduled for people in the towns of Gibson and Kossuth on April 23-24. Future water quality testing will follow."
  
  
• Chenequa concerned about lakes, wells
  (Lake County Reporter, 04/19) "Some village officials are concerned municipal wells in Delafield and Hartland could adversely affect Pine and Beaver lakes."
  
  
• Shallow wells could aid Waukesha radium effort
  (Waukesha Freeman, 04/19) "An unconventional city program involving cooperation with local developers to find less contaminated water sources has progressed in recent months, with the discovery of two potential, radium-free well sites."
  
  
• Brown Co. neighbors blame farm for their contaminated wells
  (WBAY News, 04/19) "Conservation officials say there is a growing danger -- the number of contaminated wells. Close to a dozen families in the Brown County town of Lark are the latest to report problems."
  
  
• Finley backs tax sharing in Waukesha County water deal
  (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 04/19) "Waukesha County Executive Daniel Finley said Tuesday that a permanent tax revenue sharing program should be part of a deal for water between Waukesha County suburbs and Milwaukee."
  
  
• Brown County pipeline bids come in $2M below estimates
  (Green Bay Press-Gazette, 04/20) "Bids opened for Contract G of the Central Brown County Water Authority pipeline project were more than $2 million below engineering projections."
  
  
• Grand Chute passes water project
  (Appleton Post-Crescent, 04/20) "Water service and street improvements will be coming to a portion of Grand Chute this summer."
  
  
• De Pere OKs connector building for water pipeline
  (Green Bay Press-Gazette, 04/20) "Over the objection of Merrill Street residents, the De Pere City Council on Tuesday approved construction of a connector building for the Central Brown County Water Authority pipeline near Dickinson Elementary School."
  

—  Water Resources

• DNR won't raise Lake Koshkonong summer water level
  (Gazette Xtra, 04/19) "The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will not raise Lake Koshkonong's summer water level."
  
  
• Fox River cleanup bill targets insurers
  (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 04/21) "Wisconsin paper companies Thursday began their push in the Capitol to force insurance companies to pay a greater share of the costs - up to $600 million or more - to remove PCBs from the Fox River."
  

—  Stormwater

• Shorewood plans gardens to retain rainwater
  (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 04/24) "The old adage about April showers bringing May flowers may soon take on new meaning for some 800 Shorewood homeowners."