Title: Arthur Kaftan Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1929-1972

Creator:

• Kaftan, Arthur

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 88; Green Bay Micro 36; Micro 930

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of a Green Bay, Wis., attorney and environmentalist documenting his work against water pollution in the Fox River and Green Bay. Most of the collection concerns two pollution campaigns, one in 1949 led by members of the Brown County Izaak Walton League which resulted in stronger state laws on sewage and industrial pollution, and another in 1968 following a complaint filed with the Department of Natural Resources against the Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District charging inadequate action. Included are newsclippings, hearing transcripts, legal documents, correspondence, reports of the state Committee on Water Pollution and the Board of Health, and other papers.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0088

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Attorney Arthur Kaftan has played a leading role in environmentalists' efforts against water pollution of the Fox River and Green Bay. He chaired the Pollution Committee of the Brown County Chapter of the Izaak Walton league of America as well as the Wisconsin Division of the League and led a 1949 campaign to improve water quality. In 1968 he helped lead another campaign with the same goal.

This collection documents both the 1949 and 1968 campaigns in some detail. The 1949 campaign by Kaftan and other members of the Brown County Izaak Walton League publicized the pollution problem, and the public sentiment they aroused led to adoption of stronger state laws on sewage and industrial pollution. Almost 20 years later, Kaftan, Virgil Muench, and others filed a complaint with the Department of Natural Resources against the Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District, charging inadequate action going back to 1949. Hearings resulted in an order substantiating many of the complaint's charges. The collection includes correspondence, reports, findings of the state Committee on Water Pollution and the State Board of Health, newsclippings, and other documents on the 1949 campaign; hearing transcripts and legal documents from the 1968 complaint, and scattered other documents on water pollution.

Acquisition Information

Partially presented and partially loaned for copying by Arthur Kaftan, De Pere, Wisconsin, 1959 and 1982. Accession Number: M82-190

Processing Information

Partially presented in 1959. 1982 gift processed by Lynn Goldman and Karen Baumann, August 10, 1982.

Green Bay Mss 88 Box   1 Folder   1-9	Correspondence, Reports, Findings, and Miscellany, 1929-1954 Note: These materials were presented and put in a single chronological order in 1959.
	1968 Campaign Documents
Box   2 Folder   1	DNR Hearing re Water Quality Standards Transcript, 1967 Nov.
Box   2 Folder   2-3	DNR Hearing on Pollution of Fox River and Green Bay Transcript and Order, 1968 Jan.
	DNR Case 4C-68-11a-2, Arthur Kaftan et al. v. Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District
Box   2 Folder   4	Correspondence, Briefs, etc., 1967-1969
	Hearing Transcripts
Box   2 Folder   5-7	Volumes 1-6
Box   3 Folder   1-2	Volumes 7-8
Box   3 Folder   3	Exhibits and Other Factual Data
Box   3 Folder   4	Miscellaneous Documents, 1949-1950, 1957, 1967-1969
Green Bay Micro 36/Micro 930 Reel   1	Newsclippings, 1948-1970