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May 2, 2005

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• NJ: Ozonia North America: Sales Engineer
• AZ: Lake Havasu City: Public Works Project Manager
• CA: San Diego County Water Authority: Right of Way Supervisor
• CA: City of Tustin: Water Services Manager
• CA: Otay Water District: Sr. Civil Engineer
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National/International News

—  Great Lakes News

• Ten ships to ply Lake Erie to study ailing central basin
  (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 04/25) "Dozens of scientists will take a sweeping look at Lake Erie starting next month in what is being called one of the largest research projects ever on the Great Lakes."
  
  
• Michigan Senate approves bill to prevent invasive species
  (Detroit Free Press, 04/27) "Oceangoing ships would need a permit to enter Michigan ports starting in 2007 under legislation approved Wednesday by the state Senate."
  
  
• Groups to push Great Lakes cleanup
  (Duluth News Tribune, 04/28) "A coalition of 55 environmental and conservation groups on Wednesday joined forces to push for a massive national effort to clean up the Great Lakes."
  

—  Water Supply

• Vote ends Kentucky American takeover effort
  (AWWA WaterWeek, 04/27) "Kentucky American Water Company (KAWC) will retain ownership of the water system that serves Lexington, Ky., under a decisive April 26 vote by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County (LFUC) Council that ends a company takeover attempt that began more than three years ago."
  
  
• Norton holds tap on Lake Powell
  (Salt Lake Tribune, 04/28) "Ending weeks of mostly fruitless discussions, the seven states along the Colorado River have reached a stalemate over how the river should be managed in the midst of a drought."
  
  
• Seattle's suburban cities seek new water source
  (Seattle Times, 04/28) "A coalition of suburban cities has reached an agreement to buy Lake Tapps for $37 million, with an eye toward using it as a giant drinking-water reservoir."
  
  
• Iowa water line clogging boosts bottled water sales
  (Cedar Valley Courier, 04/28) "As officials wait to learn the source of the mysterious chunks of flesh that were found in the city's water system, residents were buying up bottled water at local stores."
  

—  Water Quality

• California town's water tainted by perchlorate
  (Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, 04/26) "Like dozens of other towns nationwide, this working-class suburb is facing an emerging threat of uncertain dimensions - a chemical used in rocket fuel and defense manufacturing that has befouled nearly half its drinking water supply."
  
  
• New Jersey lawmakers discuss ban on MTBE
  (Today's Sunbeam, 04/28) "New Jersey lawmakers began talks Wednesday on whether to ban controversial gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether, originally envisioned as a means to reduce air pollution."
  

—  Water Resources

• Next: keeping nuisance fish out of Devils Lake
  (Grand Forks Herald, 04/25) "In November, North Dakota Game and Fish employees discovered that water was flowing both ways between the Pembina River Basin and the Devils Lake Basin near Loma, 10 miles south of Langdon."
  
  
• Massachusetts charged with polluting Charles River
  (Newton TAB, 04/27) "The state Department of Conservation and Recreation is violating the federal Clean Water Act by discharging polluted stormwater into the Charles River and other water bodies without a permit, the Conservation Law Foundation charged this week in a notice announcing its intention to sue the department."
  
  
• $1 billion flows in U.S. river projects
  (Santa Clarita Daily News, 04/29) "More than $1 billion is being spent on river and stream restoration projects nationwide while the number of projects has increased by six times over the last 10 years, according to a study to be released today."
  
  
• New Calif. dam captures nearly all of toxic runoff
  (Redding Record News, 04/29) "The latest weapon in the Environmental Protection Agency's arsenal against toxic runoff at Iron Mountain Mine proved its worth this winter, officials say."
  
  
• Measuring the success of river restorations
  (NPR, 04/29) Audio. "Taxpayers and foundations spend more than $1.5 billion a year to save and restore U.S. rivers, says a new study published in the journal Science."
  

—  Stormwater

• EPA releases improved stormwater management model
  (Pollution Online, 04/27) "Civil and environmental engineers now have an improved software tool, the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM), to help plan, analyze, and design urban storm water drainage and sewer systems."
  

—  Wastewater

• Boring work in progress in Providence, Rhode Island
  (Providence Journal, 04/26) "Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee took a train trip yesterday on what can be described as the most expensive, the dirtiest and the least scenic stretch of railway anywhere in Rhode Island."
  
  
• Kentucky deal targets sewage runoff in waterways
  (Louisville Courier-Journal, 04/26) "Louisville has agreed to spend as much as $500 million over the next 19 years to reduce the billions of gallons of untreated sewage that overflows into the Ohio River and its tributaries from antiquated sewer lines."
  
  
• Sludge raises concern in California's Central Valley
  (San Jose Mercury News, 04/26) "A strong wind raises clouds of powdery gray dust, obscuring the road and sky around Larry Pearson's truck as he drives past piles of dried human waste."
  
  
• Alaska OKs state taking over wastewater permits
  (Anchorage Daily News, 04/28) "The Senate approved a plan Wednesday to take from the federal government the responsibility for permitting projects that discharge industrial wastewater in Alaska waters."
  
  
• Holyoke, Mass., faces CSO deadline
  (Republican, 04/28) "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has warned the city to expect six-digit fines if it does not meet an administrative order requiring concrete progress to clean up the Connecticut River by July 1."
  
  
• Idaho waste treatment plant blows seal, spills sludge
  (Seattle PI, 04/28) "Roughly 15,000 gallons of sewage sludge spilled onto the ground after a seal broke at the city's wastewater treatment plant."
  
  
• Group opposes New Hampshire wastewater discharge permit
  (Foster's Online, 04/29) "Believing the level of treatment would be inadequate, an environmental advocacy group plans to speak out against the city’s application for a wastewater discharge permit at a upcoming public hearing."
  

—  Hazardous/Toxic Waste

• Two sites proposed and three sites finalized in the Southeast
  (EPA News Release, 04/27) "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed the addition of two sites and finalized the addition of three sites in the Southeast to the Superfund National Priority List (NPL) of hazardous waste sites."
  
  
• Vermont Site Added to EPA Superfund List
  (EPA News Release, 04/27) "EPA today added ten sites nationwide to the national "Superfund" list, including the Commerce Street Plume in Williston, Vt."
  

—  Air Quality

• Advocacy group reports less air pollution nationwide
  (Akron Beacon Journal, 04/28) "Fewer Americans have had to breathe unhealthy levels of smog or microscopic soot in recent years, but air pollution remained a threat in counties where more than half the nation lives, the American Lung Association said in an annual report Thursday."
  
  
• EPA in a hot spot over mercury pollution
  (MSNBC, 04/29) "An internal Environmental Protection Agency report estimates the Southeast alone could reap up to $2 billion a year in benefits from reducing mercury pollution — far greater than the $50 million in benefits the agency projected publicly for the entire nation."
  

—  Everything Else

• AWWA publishes new book titled: Water Rates and Fees and the Legal Environment
  (AWWA, 04/23) "This handbook provides helpful guidance and tools for a utility to consider in order to avoid legal challenges. It also discusses how to address issues, should legal challenges occur."
  
  
• Book chronicles San Diego's water history
  (San Diego Union-Tribune, 04/27) "Given San Diego County's reliance on the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, some people have come to call the agency 'Mother Met.'"
  

Illinois

—  Water Supply

• Illiopolis on tap to take over water supply
  (Decatur Herald & Review, 04/24) "Come May 1, the village of Illiopolis, not Formosa Plastics Corp., will control the water flowing from each resident's tap."
  
  

• Clinton closer to water tower
  (Bloomington Pantagraph, 04/26) "Construction could begin this summer on a water tower on the west side of Clinton. The Clinton school board approved an easement agreement last week to allow the city to install infrastructure for the project."
  
  

• Cities may buy Peoria water
  (Peoria Journal Star, 04/29) "Bloomington and Normal are interested in tapping into Peoria's water supply if the City Council decides to buy its division of the privately owned Illinois-American Water Co."
  

—  Water Resources

• Disks make it easier to test levels of atrazine in field crops
  (Illinois Farm Bureau, 04/26) "It's 'plastic please' when it comes to scientists' choice of pesticide-water sampling devices in field crops. Wide acceptance has been building for the compact plastic disks over glass containers which are used to collect water samples and determine threatening levels of pesticide runoff."
  
  
• Fight to save the Cache River swamps
  (Counter Punch, 04/27) Opinion. "The Cache River wetlands in extreme Southern Illinois are amazing to see - even after having large areas drained a century ago."
  
  
• Kane closer to South Batavia Dam project
  (Aurora Beacon News, 04/29) "Mother Nature may have saved Kane County money. It appears natural flow of the Fox River has taken enough out of the South Batavia Dam that the county will have less to remove of the crumbling structure if and when it is forced to by the state."
  

—  Wastewater

• Chicago River to get sewage warnings
  (Chicago Tribune, 04/25) "While Mayor Richard M. Daley and other civic leaders promote the Chicago River as the city's second lakefront, signs are going up that provide a stark reminder of the waterway's sewage-choked history."
  
  
• Pekin brings wastewater operations in-house
  (Pekin Daily Times, 04/26) "With much less fanfare than the garbage service transfer to the city last year, the Pekin Wastewater Treatment Plant will once again come under the operation of city employees."
  
  
• Costs for Channahon sewer lift station covered
  (Joliet Herald News, 04/29) "Five property developers in Channahon have agreed to share the costs of building a sewer lift station near Ridge Road, village trustees learned recently."
  
  
• Matthews band pays waste dumping settlement
  (Chicago Tribune, 04/29) "The Dave Matthews Band today agreed to pay $200,000 to the state to settle a civil case that was filed after the group's tour bus driver dumped human waste on a Chicago River tour boat last summer."
  

—  Hazardous/Toxic Waste

• EPA names new Superfund National Priorities List site in Danville
  (EPA News Release, 04/27) "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that two new sites in the Great Lakes states have been added to the Superfund National Priorities List. Hegeler Zinc, Danville, Ill., and Copley Square Plaza, Copley, Ohio, were among 10 sites added to the list and and seven proposed for the list nationally."
   

—  Landfill/Solid Waste

• Bloomington panel OKs landfill plans
  (Bloomington Pantagraph, 04/28) "McLean County's pollution committee approved a plan Wednesday to expand the landfill west of Interstate 55."
  
  
• Joliet dump owner alleges state 'blacklist'
  (Chicago Tribune, 04/28) "Frank Schmidt, whose Joliet dump was temporarily shut down by the state earlier this year and sparked a public feud within Gov. Rod Blagojevich's family, said Wednesday that Blagojevich is preventing him from doing business with state contractors and that he will sue the state to rectify the situation."
  

—  Everything Else

• Freeport reports sewer, stormwater and fee issues
  (Joliet Herald News, 04/23) "The Freeport Commission heard from the Regional Manager for Woodridge Estates on an ongoing sanitary sewer issue in which rainwater is infiltrating the sanitary sewer lines at the mobile home park, causing astronomically high bills to the park, located on the southwest edge of town."
  

Indiana

—  Water Supply

• Water on the rise at Mississinewa Reservoir
  (News Link Indiana, 04/25) "A drop in the water level at the Mississinewa Reservoir caused a drop in visitors and forced some businesses to close. But, as finishing touches are put on the renovated dam, water levels are getting back to normal, and park officials hope to see a rise in business."
  
  
• Valpo extends water service to Windsor Park
  (NWI Times, 04/28) "The timetable for annexing Windsor Park subdivision to the city is still undetermined, but the annexation of the homes to the city's water system begins next week."
   

—  Water Resources

• Little River Wetlands Project may be growing
  (Fort Wayne News Sentinel 04/27) "If a group of local preservationists succeed in acquiring what they call 'Eagle Marsh,' it would be an unusual accomplishment in environmental restoration."
  
  
• Vigo County officials to replace pipe used to lower lake
  (Terre Haute Tribune Star, 04/29) "Vigo County park officials are planning within the next five years to replace a drainage pipe used to reduce stress on an earthen dam for Burns Lake at Hawthorn Park."
  

—  Wastewater

• Germantown awaits sewer service
  (Palladium Item, 04/24) "Seven months. That's how long East Germantown residents have until their sewer service installation is finished."
  
  
• Sewer lift station work delays New Haven trail
  (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, 04/26) "New Haven residents must wait until the end of the year or 2006 for a connection to the Rivergreenway system."
  
  
• Lowell, Cedar Lake agree on reduced sewer bond
  (Warsaw Times Union, 04/27) "In a joint session Tuesday, the Lowell and Cedar Lake town councils put a final figure on the state revolving fund loan necessary to fund the second phase of improvements at the sewage treatment plant and ensure the loan closing happens May 9 as scheduled."
  
  
• Hearing planned on Bargersville, White River sewer project
  (Indianapolis Star, 04/27) "A sewer project encompassing 28 square miles in Bargersville and White River Township will be the topic of a public hearing Thursday."
  
  
• Georgetown increases sewer flow, rates still in question
  (Jeffersonville Evening News, 04/29) "Last month, the city of New Albany finalized an agreement with Georgetown to increase the town's current wastewater flow rate from 226,000 gallons a day to 500,000 gallons a day. That increase will cost Georgetown about $2.1 million and payment is due in full to the city on Sept. 1."
  

—  Hazardous/Toxic Waste

• Rep. Grubb's VX destruction bill heads to governor
  (Terre Haute Tribune Star, 04/26) "The Indiana House passed the negotiated version of state Rep. Dale Grubb's VX destruction and transportation legislation last week."
  
   
• VX wastewater may not go to New Jersey
  (South Jersey Courier Post, 04/29) "A Georgia company said Thursday it's found a way to destroy byproducts of a lethal nerve gas at military depots - and a South Jersey legislator said that could derail a controversial plan to ship such byproducts here for disposal."
  
   
• Newport sighs with relief as VX destruction set
  (Indianapolis Star, 04/29) "Tom Burch has been nervous for almost 40 years, knowing that the deadliest substance in the world was just four miles west of his home."
  

Michigan

—  Water Supply

• Cleanup of 1,4 dioxane pollution continues in Ann Arbor
  (Ann Arbor News, 04/24) "Every day, nearly 2 million gallons of water treated for 1,4 dioxane, a chemical known to cause cancer in animals, is pumped into a creek that leads to the city of Ann Arbor's largest source of drinking water."
  
  
• Ann Arbor predicts water shortage
  (Ann Arbor News, 04/24) "By 2010, the city of Ann Arbor projects it won't have enough water to meet peak demand. That means the city would have to implement water rationing."
  
  
• MDEQ to update Ironwood commission on water
  (Ironwood Daily Globe, 04/25) "Ironwood's attempts to nibble away at water-related problems likely will accelerate after this evening's city commission meeting."
  
  
• Carrollton working on water contract
  (Saginaw News, 04/26) "Thomas, Tittabawassee and Birch Run townships have sealed their deals. Now, Carrollton Township is slowly gearing up its negotiations for a long-term water contract with Saginaw."
  
  
• Delphi spill had 15 years to spread
  (Grand Rapids Press, 04/26) "Fifteen years after discovering a cancer-causing chemical in groundwater beneath its plant, Delphi Corp. drilled new wells to test how far the carcinogen had spread."
  
  
• Water solution for Brooklyn
  (Jackson Citizen Patriot, 04/27) "A new landmark should rise above Brooklyn about two years from now, with the Village Council's decision Tuesday to finance improvements to the water system."
  
  
• Hopewell residents fight water project
  (Detroit News, 04/28) "Residents in the center of the township who oppose a proposed water and sewer project there say the township is trying to force a financial burden on them."
  
  
• Omer taps into grant to expand water service
  (Bay City Times, 04/29) "For years, about 25 Omer residents have had to drink well water, while the rest of the tiny Northeast Michigan city enjoyed municipal water service."
  

—  Water Resources

• Army Corps approves disputed project in wetland area
  (Detroit News, 04/23) "Federal regulators say developers can proceed with a long-stalled housing construction project near Lake Michigan, but must redesign it to minimize further wetland destruction and fix damage already done."
  
  
• Groups join to embrace large watershed of the Kawkawlin River
  (Bay City Times, 04/24) "Popping up around Bay, Gladwin, Saginaw and Midland counties are signs of interest in one of the area's largest, but largely ignored, resources. It's good to see the 30 road signs calling attention to the Kawkawlin River Watershed."
  
  
• Solitude and solidarity at Grand, Red Cedar River clean-up
  (Lansing City Pulse, 04/26) Column. "There is a holiday feeling to the semi-annual Adopt-A-River cleanup — especially for the first half hour or so, when zig-zagging the banks of the Grand and Red Cedar rivers in search of all things unnatural is still a novelty, and your back is still morning-coffee strong."
  
  
• Brighton residents claim wetlands mistreated
  (Detroit News, 04/26) "About a month after residents spent $35,000 for a well to help raise the level of Clark Lake, they say one of their neighbors is filling in the wetlands that help feed water into Clark Lake."
  
  
• Food plant cited for polluting Carlton Creek
  (Muskegon Chronicle, 04/26) "A New Era food processing company already under investigation for environmental problems has been cited by the state for discharging foul-smelling wastewater laced with fruits and vegetables into a state-protected trout stream."
  
  
• Complaints lead to cleanup of two Bay County drains
  (Bay City Times, 04/26) "A potential fish kill was averted in Bay County, after state environmental officials blocked and pumped two drains contaminated with polluted runoff from rotting sugar beets."
   

—  Stormwater

• Wakefield flood projects on home stretch
  (Ironwood Daily Globe, 04/28) "Streets in Wakefield have been torn up for the past three years, but construction work may finally be coming to an end."
   

—  Wastewater

• State, federal dollars float Manton wastewater project
  (Cadillac News, 04/27) "Nearly $3 million in state and federal dollars is helping Manton complete a much-needed wastewater treatment upgrade."
  

—  Everything Else

• Ironwood faces $8M water bill for sewer, water upgrades
  (Ironwood Daily Globe, 04/26) "Ironwood faces more than $8 million in required water projects, the city commission learned Monday."
  

Minnesota

—  Water Supply

• Lake Elmo well-water concerns on tap
  (St. Paul Pioneer Press, 04/24) "Richard Eder sometimes still reaches to fill his glass with tap water when he's thirsty. Then he realizes he can't do that."
  
  
• Chemical found in North Oaks water wells
  (St. Paul Pioneer Press, 04/26) "A man-made chemical known to cause cancer has been found in two North Oaks residential wells, but state health officials are cautioning against overreaction."
  

—  Water Resources

• Phosphorus a concern for lakes
  (Fergus Falls Journal, 04/25) "The grass might be greener in somebody else's yard this summer, but it won't be because they used fertilizer, and you didn't."
  
  
• CREP a reality for Minnesota
  (Agri News, 04/26) "CREP is a reality in southern and northern Minnesota. Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns inked the deal in an Earth Day celebration Friday at the Straight River Marsh near Ellendale."
  
  
• Otter Tail County works on leveling out the lakes
  (Fergus Falls Journal, 04/28) "Five miles west of Elizabeth, part of Otter Tail County Road 10 is under water, as the landlocked Leon Lake, which has posed 'a high-water situation' for the last four to five years, has 'reached the point now where we need to do something about it,' said Otter Tail County Engineer Rick West."
  
  
• Robbinsdale considers merits of Shingle Creek funding plan
  (Robbinsdale Sun Post, 04/28) "Last Tuesday, the Robbinsdale City Council attempted to assess the value of a plan from the Shingle Creek Watershed Commission that would allow watershed management to levy a tax for capital improvement projects."
  
  
• Fishing for a funding source to clean Minnesota's water
  (Fargo Forum, 04/29) "From tapping state lottery revenues to assessing sewer service fees, lawmakers are fishing for a palatable way to pay for the cleanup of polluted Minnesota water."
  
  
• Public gets look at Minntac discharge proposal
  (Tower Timberjay News, 04/29) "About 120 area residents got their first real look this week at a proposal by US Steel to discharge up to 7.2 million gallons of water per day from their Minntac tailings basin, just north of Virginia."
  

—  Wastewater

• Minnesota metal finisher sentenced in sewer line case
  (US Newswire, 04/27) Scroll Down. "Kenneth Heroux, owner of Hardcoat Inc., in St. Louis Park, Minn., was sentenced to pay a $20,000 fine, serve three years' probation and perform 225 hours of community service on April 14 by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota in Minneapolis."
  
  
• Brainerd wastewater plant financing options aired
  (Brainerd Dispatch, 04/27) "Brainerd Public Utilities Commission members heard finance options for a planned $20 million expansion of its wastewater treatment plant Tuesday but took no action on the draft report."
  

Ohio

—  Water Supply

• Lyons water problem noted without solution
  (Toledo Blade, 04/28) "With water pressure lacking in the west end of town, and with new homes coming to the village, Lyons is thirsting for ways to address some water issues."
  

—  Water Resources

• 'Bulldozer' wetlands law opposed by Ohio's EPA
  (Cincinnati Enquirer, 04/28) "Ohio legislators are considering a plan that would radically change the way state wetlands are protected."
  

—  Stormwater

• Storm sewer upgrades thought out by Belpre council
  (Marietta Times, 04/26) "Plans for Belpre's storm sewers were discussed Monday night."
  
  
• Ironton business owners fear effects of stormwater fee
  (Ironton Tribune, 04/28) "Longtime Ironton businessman Dick Muth was left almost speechless. As co-owner of Muth Lumber Co., Muth was concerned when he heard about the proposed stormwater utility fee that he thought may cost the Ironton company an extra $400 a month."
  
  
• Proposed fee in Ironton creates worry, confusion
  (Ironton Tribune, 04/29) "Three simple letters that most people learned in grade school do not mean much on their own but put them together - CSO - and the confusion sets in."
  

—  Wastewater

• Windham car wash owners sue over sewage backups
  (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 04/29) "Working at Jim and Amy Olson's car wash can be a dirty business, and the couple hope a lawsuit will help clean up the mess that they say is caused by overflows from the village's sewer system."
  

—  Air Quality

• State proposes alternate air pollution permits for small businesses
  (Akron Beacon Journal, 04/28) "The state is proposing alternative air-pollution permits for small businesses to allow state environmental regulators to focus on bigger producers of pollution."
  
  
• Clevelanders not breathing easy: area 8th for soot, 14th for ozone
  (Cleveland Plain Dealer, 04/28) "Greater Cleveland's air once again failed to make the grade."
  

—  Hazardous/Toxic Waste

• EPA names new Superfund National Priorities List site in Copley
  (EPA News Release, 04/27) "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that two new sites in the Great Lakes states have been added to the Superfund National Priorities List."
  
  
• Tons of uranium byproduct waste headed to West Texas
  (Akron Beacon Journal, 04/28) "Tons of uranium byproduct waste from a government plant in Ohio will be stored in West Texas as part of a $7.5 million agreement, the Ohio contractor cleaning up the site announced Thursday."
  

—  Everything Else

• Worker rescued from Toledo trench after collapse
  (WTOL, 04/26) "A construction worker is recovering tonight after dozens of firefighters had to rescue him from a deep hole."
  

Wisconsin

—  Water Supply

• Drilling away at risky wells
  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 04/23) "Wisconsin is cracking down on the construction of poorly built wells, and officials say their aggressive new stance is aimed at protecting homeowners from health risks caused by bad wells."
  
  
• Milwaukee communities meet to discuss the draining of aquifers
  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 04/27) "Many communities in the Milwaukee area are running deficits - not in municipal budgets, but in their use of a commodity that's considered far more precious than money: Water."
  

—  Water Resources

• Lawsuit challenges DNR's permit for plants' cooling system
  (Duluth News Tribune, 04/26) "Environmentalists are challenging state regulators' approval of a water permit for two proposed power plants along Lake Michigan they say will kill billions of fish every year."
  
  
• Fox River locks opening pushed sooner
  (Appleton Post-Crescent, 04/29) "The Friends of the Fox will lead a campaign to raise $6.25 million in private money by Labor Day to accelerate the restoration of the Fox River locks system."
  

—  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."
  
  
• Milwaukee County flood control project approved
  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 04/28) "Milwaukee County Board supervisors cleared the way Thursday for construction of an $80 million flood-control basin on the County Grounds in Wauwatosa that promises to tame Menomonee River overflows."
  

—  Wastewater

• Sewage district will post signs along lakefront
  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 04/25) "The sewerage district will soon post signs at 180 points along the lakefront, rivers and other waterways where sewage is dumped during rainstorms, said Kevin Shafer, the district's executive director said Monday."
  
  
• Wastewater could help solve water woes, expert says
  (Greater Milwaukee Today, 04/29) "Waukesha should consider drinking its own wastewater instead of trying to hook up to Lake Michigan."
  

—  Air Quality

• Plan to streamline air pollution permits OK'd
  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 04/27) "Aiming to cut red tape for businesses, the Natural Resources Board approved regulations Wednesday that will ease air pollution compliance requirements on many Wisconsin companies."
  

—  Everything Else

• Archaeologists will probe bones at Neenah water plant site
  (Appleton Post-Crescent, 04/27) "Archaeologists will arrive today to dig into the mystery of an American Indian burial ground that was discovered last week during the construction of Neenah’s new water plant."
  
  
• Brookfield board to take over sanitary district
  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 04/28) "The Town Board Thursday voted to take control of Sanitary District No. 4, moments after the district's third and last commissioner resigned."