Title: Wisconsin. Division of Environmental Protection: Water Pollution Investigations
Inclusive Dates: 1966-1973

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Division of Environmental Protection

Call Number: Series 2572

Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (4 record center cartons and 2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Files relating to hearings before the Department of Natural Resources and its predecessor, the Department of Resource Development, concerning investigations of alleged pollution of the Wisconsin rivers and drainage basins by municipal and industrial waste. Included are transcripts of public hearings, orders and findings of fact, exhibits, correspondence, data, and occasional photographs and legal documents. A substantial quantity of the investigations concern charges of alleged pollution of the Wisconsin River by Nekoosa-Edwards, Consolidated Papers, and other paper companies.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser02572

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Earlier investigations of a similar nature are included in the records of the Committee on Water Pollution, Series 1243, and printed reports of investigations conducted by the division during the early 1970s are available in the government documents section of the SHSW Library.

Acquisition Information

Includes 1990/203 and portions of 1989/204.

Box   1 Folder   1	Bad Axe/La Crosse Basin, 1971
Box   1 Folder   2	Baraboo and Lemonweir rivers, 1973
Box   1 Folder   3	Baumgartner vs. Milwaukee and Buckley Tree Service, 1968
Box   1 Folder   4	Beloit sewer connection, 1969
Box   1 Folder   5	Black River Falls and Brockway sewer systems, 1969
Box   1 Folder   6-7	Black River, 1969
Box   1 Folder   8	Dover, Racine County, Sanitary District, 1969
Box   1 Folder   9	Duck-Pensukee Drainage Basin, 1971
Box   1 Folder   10	Eastman Creamery, 1968
Box   1 Folder   11	Eau Claire-Altoona Sewer systems, 1969
	Fox River
Box   1 Folder   12	General, 1969
Box   1 Folder   13-17	Lower, 1968
Box   1 Folder   18-19	Upper, 1967
Box   1 Folder   20	Grant-Platte Drainage Basin, 1967-1972
Box   1 Folder   21	Interstate surface waters, 1971
Box   2 Folder   1-4	Kaftan vs. Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District, 1968
Box   2 Folder   5	Keller vs. North Labs, 1968
Box   2 Folder   6	La Crosse-Bad Axe, 1971
Box   2 Folder   7-11	Lake Superior, 1966-1971
Box   2 Folder   12-13	Manitowoc River, 1969
Box   2 Folder   14-16	Menomonee River, 1967-1969
	Milwaukee River
Box   2 Folder   17-18	General, 1969
Box   2 Folder   19	Upper, 1970
Box   3 Folder   1	Oconto River, 1969
Box   3 Folder   2-3	Pecatonica River, 1968, 1971
Box   3 Folder   4	Peshtigo River, 1969
Box   3 Folder   5-6	Pike-Des Plaines Drainage Basin, 1967
	Rock River
Box   3 Folder   7-8	Lower, 1971
Box   3 Folder   9-10	Upper, 1969
Box   3 Folder   11-12	Root River Basin, 1967
Box   3 Folder   13-14	Sheboygan River, 1970
Box   3 Folder   15-16	Saint Croix River, 1972
Box   3 Folder   17	Sugar River, 1971
Box   3 Folder   18	Trempealeau and Buffalo rivers, 1971
Box   3 Folder   19	Twin and Kewaunee rivers, Door Drainage, 1971
	Wisconsin River
Box   3 Folder   20-22	General, Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co. 1971
Box   4 Folder   1-2	Lower, 1968, 1973
	Upper
Box   4 Folder   3-6	1970
Box   4 Folder   7	Consolidated Papers, 1966-1967
Box   4 Folder   8-16	Consolidated rehearing, 1971
Box   5 Folder   1-5	Nekoosa-Edward rehearing, 1971
Box   5 Folder   6	Owens-Illinois Inc., rehearing, 1970
Box   5 Folder   7-8	St. Regis Paper rehearing, 1970
Box   6 Folder   1-2	Wausau Paper Mills rehearing, 1971
Box   6 Folder   3	Wolf River, 1971