Yahara WINs marks first anniversary

Yahara WINs marks first anniversary

Sewerage districts across in the United States spend billions of dollars every year treating wastewater to remove pollutants, as required by the Clean Water Act. Many of these pollutants are generated by their ratepayers, but some come from sources the Clean Water Act was never intended to regulate. Phosphorus, much of which runs off agricultural land, produces algae blooms and degrades habitat in freshwater ecosystems....
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SCF participates in Yahara Lakes Breakfast

SCF participates in Yahara Lakes Breakfast

Sand County Foundation sponsored  a table at the Yahara Lakes Breakfast in November 9 in Madison, Wisconsin. The event, organized by Madison’s Clean Lakes Alliance, brought together individuals from the Madison community and beyond to discuss the importance of improving and maintaining the health of the Yahara Lakes in Dane County, Wisconsin. The Yahara Lakes Breakfast is part of a larger collaborative effort between...
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Bioreactor installation

Bioreactor installation

This video, courtesy of the Iowa Soybean Association, shows the installation of a bioreactor on a farm field in Iowa. Bioreactors are structures that are used to help remove excess nitrogen from water that is flowing off of farm fields into waterways. How do they work? Subsurface bioreactors act as giant filters. Water travels down tile lines and is diverted into a bioreactor pit, which is filled with wood chips. The water...
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