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Dodge County Landspreading Pilot Project - Residential Datalayer Setbacks

Source: Wisconsin DNR South Central Region Wastewater Program

Date: Last Updated 5/08

The Bureau of Watershed Management and the South Central Region Wastewater Program set up this pilot project in March 2006 to support obtaining more accurate and consistent data for landspreading permits and management plans.  This project involves setting up several new GIS datalayers (see below) in the Surface Water Data Viewer to evaluate its usefulness to permittees and DNR for more accurately delineating land spreading sites for sludge, industrial waste and Septage to help reduce over or inappropriate application and to help comply with setbacks, etc.

This map layer depicts actual residences as a point on the map.  The location of each point was interpreted from viewing 2004 and/or 2005 NAIP (National Agriculture Imagery Program) Digital Orthophoto Imagery.  This map layer was last updated in February of 2006. NOTE:  This map layer is incomplete and does NOT show all residences. 

Dodge County residences and two levels of setbacks are shown in the viewer when the user clicks on the box to the left of the indicated setback. The box will remain 'grey' until the user navigates close enough into the map to be able to turn "on" the appropriate datalayer.  When the datalayer is turned on, the user can click on the "identify” button, (see right) and then click on the screen, to receive the following info:

Residential Buffers:

Residences are displayed with “buffers” or setbacks at two distances corresponding to regulatory requirements associated with different materials to be land applied. These distances include 200 feet and 500 feet.