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Clean Wisconsin Files Suit To Support DNR Groundwater Authority

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The potential for a precedent-setting turn in Wisconsin groundwater regulation has prompted an environmental group to file suit. Clean Wisconsin filed the suit Monday so the court can look at the DNR's ability to set conditions on runoff.

At issue was a Department of Justice finding that the DNR could not set protections to reduce groundwater pollution from a large animal feeding operation in Kewaunee county. The DNR originally set standards then reversed itself after a Department of Justice finding. Clean Wisconsin attorney Elizabeth Wheeler says they got involved because of potential wide-ranging effects on groundwater...

"....the main reason Clean Wisconsin is in this case is we view it as a real precedent setting and game-changing position that is being taken here...."

Wheeler says one year ago Clean Wisconsin petitioned the federal EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect drinking water in Kewaunee county where nearly one in three wells are contaminated with nitrites or bacteria.

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