Summary Information
Wisconsin. Committee on Water Pollution: Records
1921-1966
- Wisconsin. Committee on Water Pollution
Series 1243
11.0 c.f. (29 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Minutes, 1928-1963; regulatory orders and findings, correspondence, reports, studies and investigations, scattered photographs, and subject files of the committee responsible for enforcing and administering laws concerning pollution of surface water in Wisconsin from 1927 through 1966. Also included are minutes, reports, and correspondence of its subcommittee on the chemical treatment of lakes and streams (later the Subcommittee on Aquatic Nuisance Control), 1938-1966; minutes and reports of the Sulphite Manufacturers Research League, 1944-1962; and minutes of the Advisory Committee on Waste Disposal for the Wisconsin Pulp and Paper Industry. The subject files also contain detailed annual surveys, mainly 1929-1934, of Wisconsin paper mills. River basin and municipal sewage plant studies include narrative reports, public hearing transcripts, and occasional court documents. Well documented river basins include the Chippewa, Fox, Oconto, Rock, and Wisconsin river basins and the Madison lakes.
English
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Biography/History
The Committee on Water Pollution was created by Chapter 264, Laws of 1927, as an interdepartmental agency composed of representatives of the state's Public Service Commission and the Conservation Commission, as well as the State Health Officer and the State Sanitary Engineer. Its powers were strengthened by the legislature in 1949. For administrative purposes, the committee was attached to the State Board of Health, first through its Bureau of Sanitary Engineering and later through its Division of Water Pollution Control. The State Sanitary Engineer served as its executive secretary. The committee was responsible for enforcing and administering laws governing the control of pollution of the state's surface waters, primarily focusing on pollution from the pulp and paper, canning, and dairy processing industries. It also made detailed studies of the conditions in particular streams and rivers and conducted research on sewage treatment plants and industrial waste. A subcommittee on aquatic nuisance control regulated the chemicals used on recreational lakes to control algae and aquatic weeds. The Water Resources Act, Chapter 614, of the Laws of 1965 expanded the state's role in the area of water resources management, abolished the committee (effective August 1966), and transferred its functions to the Department of Resource Development. Under the 1967 governmental reorganization act these functions were transferred to the new Water Resources Council, attached to the Department of Natural Resources.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Includes former Series 1244, 1245, 1246 and portions of 1989/204 and 205
Contents List
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Minutes
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Box
1
Folder
1-10
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1928-1951
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Box
2
Folder
1-10
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1952-1960
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Box
3
Folder
1-3
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1961-1963
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Subject files
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Box
4
Folder
1
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Badger Ordnance, 1941-1942
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Box
4
Folder
2
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Badger Paper Mills (Peshtigo River), 1937
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Box
4
Folder
3
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Baker, C.M., Papers, 1926
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Box
4
Folder
4
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Beaver Dam pollution case, 1932-1933
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Box
4
Folder
5
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Bechaud Brewing Company, 1940
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Box
4
Folder
6
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Bergstrom Paper Company, 1952
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Chemical Treatment of Lakes and Streams Subcommittee (later the Subcommittee on Aquatic Nuisance Control)
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Box
4
Folder
10-11
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Minutes, 1938-1966
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Box
4
Folder
12-13
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Annual reports, 1938-1960
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Box
4
Folder
14
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Correspondence, 1938-1958
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Box
4A
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Miscellaneous research reports and studies
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Box
5
Folder
1
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Financial miscellany
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Box
5
Folder
2
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Civil Works Program, 1933
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Box
5
Folder
3
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Clean-up Work, 1925-1945
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Box
5
Folder
4
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Conferences, 1959
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Box
5
Folder
5-7
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Correspondence, 1941-1962
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Box
5
Folder
8
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DDT Treatment for Insect Control in Forest or Non-crop Areas, 1947
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Box
5
Folder
9
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Delavan Lake, Killing of weeds, 1935
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Box
5
Folder
10
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Drainage areas in Wisconsin (Western Great Lakes Basin), 1946
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Box
5
Folder
11
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Elm Grove sewage treatment, 1944
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Box
5
Folder
12
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Federal legislation, 1936-1938
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Box
5
Folder
13
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Financial reports, 1943-1952
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Box
5
Folder
14
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Fond du Lac River pollution, 1940-1948
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Box
5
Folder
15
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Fox River, 1921-1949
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Box
5
Folder
16
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Omitted
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Box
5
Folder
17
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Industrial wastes, 1943-1950
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Box
5
Folder
18
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Juneau, 1937-1944
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Box
5
Folder
19
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Kannenberg, Adolf, papers, 1925-1948
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Box
5
Folder
20
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Kendall sewerage situation, 1921-1934
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Box
6
Folder
1
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Kenosha, 1941-1945
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Box
6
Folder
2
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Kraft wastes, 1943-1944
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Box
6
Folder
3
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Lake Geneva, Val-lo-Will farm, 1942-1949
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Box
6
Folder
4
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Lake Michigan Tri-state survey, 1948
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Box
6
Folder
5
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Legislation, 1936-1951
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Box
6
Folder
6
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Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District, 1933-1946
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Box
6
Folder
7
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Meeting notices, 1926-1949
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Box
6
Folder
8
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Milwaukee, 1946-1950
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Box
6
Folder
9
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Minnesota-Wisconsin joint pollution control of the Upper Mississippi, 1951-1952
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Box
6
Folder
10
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Miscellaneous, 1957
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Box
6
Folder
11
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Pollution, Miscellaneous court cases, 1932-1952
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Box
6
Folder
12
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Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company report, 1954
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Box
6
Folder
13
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Oconomowoc water and sewerage plans, 1946
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Orders
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Box
6
Folder
14-17
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1941-1952
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Box
7
Folder
1-6
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1952-1956
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Box
7
Folder
7
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Status reports and miscellaneous orders, 1937-1962
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Box
7
Folder
8
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Oshkosh, 1922-1955
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Box
8
Folder
1
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Papers written by committee members, 1927-1953
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Box
8
Folder
2
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Park Falls pollution case, 1925-1944
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Box
8
Folder
3
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Personnel, Organization, 1947-1960
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Box
8
Folder
4
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Post-war planning, 1943
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Box
8
Folder
5
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Procedure for acquisition or construction and financing of a sewage plant by a municipality
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Box
8
Folder
6
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Pulp and Paper Industry Advisory Committee, 1934-1961
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Pulp and paper mills pollution surveys
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Box
8
Folder
7-9
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1929-1933
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Box
9
Folder
1-4
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1933-1961
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Box
9
Folder
5
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Pulp and paper mill wastes, 1926-1955
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Box
9
Folder
6
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Pulp and paper mill waste survey general reports, 1929-1948
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Box
9
Folder
7
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Reports, 1928-1961
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Box
10
Folder
1
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Reserve Mining Company, 1947
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Box
10
Folder
2
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Reuping, Fred, Leather Company, 1930-1942
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Box
10
Folder
3
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Rock River, 1931-1945
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Box
10
Folder
4
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Rules of Procedure, 1944-1958
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Box
10
Folder
5
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Sewage and sewerage system articles, 1937-1941
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Box
10
Folder
6
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Sewerage legislation, 1937
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Box
10
Folder
7
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Sewerage and sewerage treatment, 1925-1944
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Box
10
Folder
8
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Steinmetz, George P., notes, 1948-1953
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Box
10
Folder
9
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Stella Cheese Company v. Wis, 1948
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Box
10
Folder
10-11
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Sulphite Waste Research League reports, 1942-1962
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Box
11
Folder
1
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Sulphite wastes, 1925-1952
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Box
11
Folder
2
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Tomahawk, 1937-1938
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Box
11
Folder
3
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Toxic materials for fish, 1930-1939
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Box
11
Folder
4
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Upper Mississippi River Valley, 1935-1954
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Box
11
Folder
5
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Vinegar Hill ZincCompany, 1939-1940
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Box
11
Folder
6
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Wastes, Miscellaneous, 1929-1949
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Box
11
Folder
7
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Waterloo, 1950
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Box
11
Folder
8
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Wisconsin League of Municipalities, 1926
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Studies of rivers and sewage plants
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Box
25
Folder
1-2
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Appleton and Menasha sewers, 1956
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Box
11
Folder
9
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Ashewaubenon, 1940
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Bad Axe, Mississippi, and Wisconsin Rivers...,
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Box
11
Folder
10
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1955
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Box
25
Folder
3
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1965-1966
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Box
11
Folder
11
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Baraboo, Lemonweir and Wisconsin Rivers..., 1952
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Box
11
Folder
12
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Bark River, 1958
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Box
11
Folder
13
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Barronett millpond, 1944
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Box
11
Folder
14
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Beaver Dam, 1933
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Box
12
Folder
1
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Beloit and South Beloit, 1947
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Black River and tributaries
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Box
12
Folder
2
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1952
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Box
25
Folder
4-5
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1952-1964
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Box
12
Folder
3
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Black Earth Creek, 1963-1964
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Box
12
Folder
4
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Buffalo and Mississippi Rivers and tributaries, 1952-1953
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Box
12
Folder
5
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Buffalo Lake, 1954
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Box
25
Folder
6
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Buffalo River, 1965-1966
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Chequamegon Bay
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Box
12
Folder
6
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1946
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Box
25
Folder
7
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1947
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Chippewa River and tributaries
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Box
12
Folder
7-8
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1948-1952
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Box
25
Folder
8
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1953-1954
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Box
25
Folder
9-10
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Upper, 1964-1966
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Box
12
Folder
10
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Survey data, 1954-1955
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Box
12
Folder
11
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Delavan Lake, Elkhorn, 1946
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Box
12
Folder
12
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Des Plaines, Fox, Root and Pike rivers..., 1955
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Box
26
Folder
1
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Door drainage area, 1965
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Duck Creek, Pensaukee River, and tributaries
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Box
12
Folder
13
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1954
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Box
26
Folder
2
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1965-1966
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East Twin River
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Box
26
Folder
3
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1946-1949
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Box
12
Folder
14
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1950
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Box
26
Folder
4
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1965-1966
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Eau Pleine River and tributaries
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Box
12
Folder
15
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1960-1961
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Box
26
Folder
5
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1961
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Box
26
Folder
6
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Fever River, 1939
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Flambeau River
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Box
26
Folder
7
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1948-1948
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Box
26
Folder
8
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1950
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Box
26
Folder
9
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1953
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Box
12
Folder
16
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1957
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Box
26
Folder
10
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Fond du Lac River, 1941
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Fox River and tributaries
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Box
27
Folder
1-2
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Green Bay hearing, 1948
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Box
13
Folder
1
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Stream survey data, 1954-1955
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Box
27
Folder
3
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1953
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Box
27
Folder
2
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1955
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Lower
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Box
13
Folder
3-4
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1946-1949
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Box
27
Folder
4-6
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1948-1949
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Box
27
Folder
17
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1953
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Box
28
Folder
1
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1954
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Box
13
Folder
5-6
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1955-1957
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Box
13
Folder
7
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1957-1966
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Box
27
Folder
2
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Galena River, 1953
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Box
13
Folder
8
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Germantown, 1944
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Box
25
Folder
2
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Grand Chute sewer system, 1961
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Box
13
Folder
9
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Grand River, Kingston Millpond..., 1946
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Grant, Platte, and Galena rivers...,
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Box
13
Folder
10
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1956
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Box
28
Folder
3
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1959-1965
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Box
28
Folder
4
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Howard sanitary district, 1956
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Box
28
Folder
11
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Number not used
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Box
28
Folder
12
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Kenosha Brass & American Brass companies, 1939-1946
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Box
28
Folder
13
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Kremer Estates Home Acres, 1948
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Box
14
Folder
1-2
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LaCrosse, 1952-1953,1965-1966
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Box
14
Folder
3-8
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Lake Michigan, 1954-1955
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Box
14
Folder
9
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Lake Superior, 1950
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Box
14
Folder
10
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Lake Superior Hearing, 1960
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Box
15
Folder
1
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Lake Winnebago, 1963
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Box
15
Folder
2
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Lima and Sheboygan Falls, 1963-1964
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Box
15
Folder
3
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Little Lake Butte des Morts, 1947-1948
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Madison Lakes
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Box
15
Folder
4
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General, 1946-1954
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Box
15
Folder
5
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Hearing, 1948
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Box
15
Folder
6
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General, 1955
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Box
15
Folder
7
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Wisniewski Report, 1960
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Box
16
Folder
1-2
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Manitowoc River and tributaries, 1950-1951
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Menominee River
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Box
16
Folder
3-5
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Oconto and Peshtigo Rivers and tributaries, 1953-1954
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Box
16
Folder
6
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River Stream Data, 1954-1955
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Box
16
Folder
7
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General, 1962
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Milwaukee River
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Box
16
Folder
8
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And Tributaries, 1952
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Box
16
Folder
9
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Governer's Study
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Box
17
Folder
1
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Mississippi River, 1948-1957
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Box
17
Folder
2
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Montreal River, 1957
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Box
17
Folder
3-4
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Mount Pleasant, 1944, 1947-1952
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Box
17
Folder
5-8
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Muskego, 1963-1966
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Box
17
Folder
9
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Namekagon River, 1950
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Oconto River
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Box
17
Folder
10
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1929-1946
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Box
18
Folder
1-5
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1947-1963
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Box
18
Folder
6
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Clippings, 1963
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Box
18
Folder
7
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Survey, 1965
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Box
18
Folder
8
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Park Falls, 1941-1944
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Box
18
Folder
9
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Pecatonica River and tributaries, 1950
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Box
18
Folder
10
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Pecatonica River, 1966
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Peshtigo River
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Box
19
Folder
1
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Hearing, 1937
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Box
19
Folder
2
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Data Sheets and Correspondance, 1948-1953
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Box
19
Folder
3
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Hearing, 1949
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Box
19
Folder
4
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Hearing, 1950
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Box
19
Folder
5
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Hearings, 1957, 1962
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Box
19
Folder
6
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Poplar River, 1951
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Box
19
Folder
7
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Red Cedar River—Rice Lake, 1953
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Rock River
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Box
19
Folder
8
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1951-1952
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Lower
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Box
19
Folder
9
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1951
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Box
19
Folder
10
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1964
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Box
20
Folder
1
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1964-1966
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Upper
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Box
20
Folder
2
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1949-1950
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Box
20
Folder
3
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Includes Izaak Walton chapter materials, 1949
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Box
20
Folder
4-5
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1963-1964
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Box
20
Folder
6
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Root and Milwaukee Rivers, 1954-1957
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Box
20
Folder
7
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Rothschild, 1959
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Box
20
Folder
8
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Rubicon River, Neosha, 1946
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Saint Croix River
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Box
20
Folder
9-10
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1946-1954
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Box
21
Folder
1
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1965
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Box
21
Folder
2
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Saint Louis River and Superior Bay, 1947-1953
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Sheboygan River
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Box
21
Folder
3-4
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1948-1952
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Box
21
Folder
5-6
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1963-1965
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Box
21
Folder
7
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Snake and Arrowhead lakes, 1952
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Box
21
Folder
8
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Stettin Sewer, 1957
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Box
21
Folder
9-10
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Sugar River and tributaries, 1954, 1964
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Box
21
Folder
11
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Supplee Marsh, 1949
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Box
22
Folder
1
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Thiensville, 1947
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Trempealeau and Mississippi rivers and tributaries
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Box
22
Folder
2
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1953
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Box
22
Folder
3
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1965-1966
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Box
22
Folder
4
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Waupun, 1948
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Box
22
Folder
5
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Willow River, 1950
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Wisconsin River
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Box
22
Folder
6
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Hearing at Merrill, 1931
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Box
22
Folder
7-9
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General, 1951,1957,1964
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Box
22
Folder
10-11
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Lower, 1957-1958, 1966
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Upper
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Box
23
Folder
1
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1940-1944
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Box
23
Folder
2-7
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1950-1965
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Wolf River
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Box
23
Folder
8
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1951
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Box
24
Folder
1-2
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1958-1965
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Box
24
Folder
3
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Yahara River, 1951
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Box
24
Folder
4-5
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Yellow River, 1946-1950
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