FLOW Board discusses legal remedies for nitrate pollution, and beavers

LOWER WISCONSIN RIVER - The Friends of the Lower Wisconsin Riverway (FLOW) held a bi-monthly board meeting at the Tripp Heritage Museum in Prairie du Sac on Thursday, April 20.

Highlights of the meeting included a report on recent testimony by Vice President Dave Marshall to the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB), plans for a FLOW Science Symposium, and a presentation on the value of beavers in the Riverway.

Dave Marshall travelled to Madison on April 12 to present information to the NRB about nitrate contamination of the oxbow lakes along the Riverway, and to request that the NRB take various actions to protect the Ramsar Wetland of International Importance. Those requests include:

• restore the original Lower Wisconsin State Riverway (LWSR) Knowles-Nelson Stewardship funding that was established under Act 31 in 1989. The annual funding was discontinued in 1994

• LWSR boundaries reassessment is long overdue

• increase scenic easement purchases which have not kept up with the Act 31 commitments...

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