Lower Fox River Basin TMDL Outreach
In fall 2006, the Lower Fox River Basin TMDL Outreach Committee was formed to guide communication and education efforts. The committee is chaired by Victoria Harris, UW-Sea Grant Institute Water Quality Specialist, and includes representatives from UW-Extension, Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District, Brown County, UW-Green Bay, Oneida Tribe of Indians, and WDNR. To date, the Outreach Committee has accomplished the following:
- initiated facilitated stakeholder discussions with farmers, crop consultants, agency staff, and storm water officials;
- collaborated with UW-Extension and USEPA to develop evaluation tools for farmer attitudes and nonpoint source pollution practices in the basin;
- presented information to a variety of groups including the Point Source Dischargers Association and the Brown County Conservation Alliance;
- assisted with the development of print and web-based materials;
- met with the Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial board; and,
- assisted with two public meetings (held on January 23, 2008) to introduce the TMDL process.
Some of the outreach products from these activities are listed below.
Toward a TMDL for the Lower Fox River Basin: Findings from Facilitated Stakeholder Meetings and Interviews, by Denise Scheberle (Principal Investigator) and Trisha Cooper (Assistant Investigator), Public and Environmental Affairs Department, UW-Green Bay. July 2008. (pdf, 709 Kb)
Lower Fox River TMDL Fact Sheet (pdf, 9 Mb)
Groups push to reduce pollution entering Fox River, by Terry Anderson (pdf, 1 Mb, read-only)
Article appeared in the Green Bay Press-Gazette on January 6, 2008. Copyright (c) Green Bay Press-Gazette. Posted here with the permission of Gannett Co., Inc. for information and education purposes only. To obtain printed copies of the article, please visit the Green Bay Press-Gazette archive.
Our Watershed (TMDL Newsletter), # 1 (pdf, 935 Kb)
Our Watershed (TMDL Newsletter), # 2 (pdf, 800 Kb)
Our Watershed (TMDL Newsletter), #3 (pdf, 922 Kb)
The Lower Fox TMDL project has been profiled in a USEPA document entitled, "Handbook for Developing Watershed TMDLs" (pdf, 4 Mb). The Lower Fox project is Case Study 4 in the Appendix, beginning on page A-27.
