Dodge County Landspreading Pilot Project - Wetlands Data
Source: Wisconsin DNR South Central Region Wastewater Program
Date: Last Updated 5/08
Dodge County Landspreading Pilot Project - Wetlands Data
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.
Dodge County wetlands are shown in the viewer when the user clicks on the box
indicated above. The box will remain 'grey' until the user navigates close
enough into the map to be able to turn "on" the wetlands datalayer.
When the wetlands 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:
·
Wetland
Code: E1Ha
· Wetland Description: Emergent/wet meadow
· Base Year: 1975
· Photo Year: 1978
· Wetland Number: 14411140089
Wetland Buffers:
Wetlands are displayed with “buffers” or setbacks at three distances corresponding to regulatory requirements associated with different materials to be land applied. These distances include 100 ft, 150 ft. and 200ft.
For more on wetlands, see:
http://dnr.wi.gov/wetlands/index.html
The Wisconsin Wetland Inventory was established in 1978 to help protect wetlands. The DNR was directed to map the state's wetlands. The initial inventory was completed in 1984. Maps are available for the entire state. You can obtain map copies or learn more about the Wisconsin Wetland Inventory through the links below.
For more information about the Wisconsin Wetland Inventory contact:
For more information on the inventory, please contact Lois Simon, Wetlands Inventory Coordinator, (608) 266-8852. For more information on the digital inventory, please contact Calvin Lawrence, GIS Specialist for the Wetlands Inventory, (608) 266-0756.