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HONS 0 3 1 0 2 8 THE HtUttUKE JOUHWL MILHMIffE. WS. _ <1 37000 <SI S61B0 JUl 2 4 1975 jgoO DNR Says Quality of Wisconsin's Rivers Is Improving I IfcfcQi, Wfe. -UPI- Overail water quality in Wisconsin fa improving gradually, the De partment of Natural Resources ay*. lion in sewage treatment plant construction between aow and I960, and that tbe pulp and pa per industry would spend $653 million on pollution control in "many years and dollars away," tbe DNR said. Trace a meants of tonic chemicals in flab still an a problem and "no aoooer are plants is likely to be as diffi ' More than 500 ptante are on aiilfioa program to help music- cult and expensive es iadustri- the waking fist for federal dot- {polities emf Industries build s! poUutioo control, tbe DNR lais for further improvement! sewage treatment puma was said. So for, Wisconsin has been ahead of many othor and at least $1 billion will have expected to run dry by Sap. tembar of 1976, time years The DNR aaid rapid fan- the same period, the depart some of theae substances states in this field. to he spent to bring them up to earlier than anticipated. movement was Hbety within ment said. brought under control than All sanitary sewers in the anticipated 1990 treatment Tht DNR hoard is expected the next decade as new federal Tbe DNR said pollution run others arise to take their state lead to some kind of neadfc . to coQskter the problem at its and state programs begin to off from farms and citiee re- place," the agency said. treatment plant, and 96% of The DNR said its own 9144 Thursday meeting at Tomah., take effect, bid that much tnained a serious problem. It Since the statewide ban on the population with sewers is was estimated that 7.3 milUon DDT, concentrations of DOT served by secondary treatment of Wisconsin's 122 mflllon in Lake Michigan fish have de- of sewage, the report said. In its annnal water quality, acres of cropland have aroefcm cHned. But recently, high con Of the state's 559 treatment report to Ceagras, the DNR i problems which contribute sift centrations qCPCBt,attaric to- plants that discharge intosar* said that ai Wisconsin's 3,360 and fertilizer to streams. dustriai dbeMdki, n5v8 ben face waters, 313 have been im miles of major rivers, all but Urban stormwater enters found jn fish from Lake Michi proved or rebuilt in tbe last 305 already met aathmal streams after every rain, carry gan, Lake Pepin and pert of five years. A total of 99 now want quality standards that ing pollutants from lawns, the upper Fox River. imeat requirements of 1977 nus: be attained by 2963. streets*and construction sites. Cleaning up discharges fnan state and federal affluent level . 0! the 703 major industrial Solutions in this ares are municipal sewage treatment lanits. . wastewater dischargers a the state, dllappsarodtobemesfr kig < ffluent Smite set for 1977, the report said. - Financial projections shoved that municipalities would be spwHIm 9651 mu'