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SEWRPC WQM Plans Contract, Reports 2021
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Purpose
SEWRPC regional land use plans have long recommended that the great majority of urban density development in the Region be served by both public sanitary sewerage systems and public water supply systems. In Wisconsin, state level oversight of sanitary sewerage and water supply services is provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). In the late 1970’s, State legislation was put in place in response to the Federal Clean Water Act that required municipalities in urbanized areas to prepare and adopt sanitary sewer service area plans. Upon approval of the SSA Plans, sewer extensions must be in conformance with the delineated 20-year growth boundary. As the designated water quality management planning agency for the seven-county southeastern Wisconsin Region under the Federal Clean Water Act, SEWRPC is responsible for working with local governments and sewerage plants and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to ensure that the federal and state laws are fulfilled. Sanitary sewer service area plans identify the outer boundary of the area within which sanitary sewers may be extended. The plans also identify the extent of environmentally sensitive lands within each sewer service area. A map identifying the location and extent of the State-approved sanitary sewer areas may be found here on the SEWRPC Regional Map Server SEWRPC Sewer Servce Area Plans
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Project Type
Water Quality Planning
Project Sub Type
AWQMP Program
Project ID
SEWRPC_WQMPlans_2021
Year Started
2021
Status
Complete
Activities & Recommendations
Water Quality Planning
sewrpc program 2021
Watershed
Fourteenmile Creek
Big Roche A Cri Creek
Waupaca River
Oconomowoc River
Walla Walla and Alder Creeks
White River
Pike River
Scuppernong River
Fox River - Berlin
Root River
Menomonee River
Oak Creek
White River and Nippersink Creek
Bark River
Sinissippi Lake
Sevenmile and Tenmile Creeks
Kinnickinnic River
Mukwonago River
Middle Fox River - Illinois
Milwaukee River South
Pine and Willow Rivers
Wind Point
Montello River
Lower Fox River - Illinois
Pike Creek - Kenosha
Ashippun River
Little Roche A Cri Creek
Mecan River
Des Plaines River
Sugar and Honey Creeks
Upper Fox River - Illinois