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Progressive stormwater management practices in Dane County, Wis., help protect the area’s urban lakes as well as small trout streams

Extensive modeling for the Lake Mendota watershed in Dane County, Wis., revealed that 500 to 600 acres per year of urban development contributed 23 percent of all sediment and 20 percent of all phosphorus entering the lake. That acreage represents just 0.3 percent of the lake’s...

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