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.
