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Dodge County Landspreading Pilot Project - Soil Restrictions Data

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 shows all soil types.  Each soil type is either shown as non-restricted or restricted.  Each of the restricted soil types are restricted because of their characteristics for either being too steep of a slope and/or having less than three feet of bedrock or groundwater beneath it.  Other restrictions are seasonal and show up on the map as a cautionary restriction.  This map layer is based on the Digital County Soils data, produced by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). 

Dodge County soils are shown in the viewer when the user clicks on the box to the left of the “soil restrictions’ button. 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 view the “legend” tab to see if there is a soil restriction on their site of interest. The "identify” button does not provide information regarding soil types.