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MONS 0 3 1 0 4 2 MILWAUKEE JOURNAL MILWAUKEE, WtSC. D. 350.005 SUR. 543,982 JUL 241975 DNR Says Quality of Wisconsin's Rivers Is Improving Midterm. Wta. -UP1- Over lion in sewage treatment plant "many years and dollars plants b likely to be as diffi [ More tipn 500 plants are on I ndllioa program to help aurric- all water quiiity in Wisconsin construction between now sod away," the DNR said. cult and expansive ss industri ! tim waiting fist fir federal dol ipeJitjet and tadsintf build k improving gradually, the De partment of Natuni Resources aays. Tim DNR aaid rapid im 1980, and that die palp and pa per industry would spend $853 million on pollution control in the seme period, the deport Tract amounts of toxic chemicals in fish still are a problem tai "no sooner are sum of these substances al pollution control, tbit DNR said. So far, Wisconsin has been ahead of many other states in thb field. lars for farther improvement and at least $1 billion win ben to be spent to bring them up to sewage treatment plants wan expected to run dry by Sep tember of 1979, three years earlier than anticipated. provement was likely within ment said. brought under control than All sanitary sewers In the 1 anticipated 1990 treatment The DNR board in expected the next decade as new federal The DNR said pollution run others arise to taka their state lead to some kind of I needs, - to consider the problem et its and state programs begin to off from farms and cities re place," the agency said. treatment plant, and 98% of I The DNR said its own $144 Thursday meeting at Tomah. | take effect, hot that modi mained a serious problem. It Since the statewide ben on the population with sewers is more work to dean op waters was estimated that 12 million DDT, concentrations of DDT served by secondary treatment of Wisconsin's 112 mflHon in Lake Michigan fish have de of sewage, the report said. La its water quality seres of cropland have erosion clined. But recently, high con Of the state's S50 treatment report to Congress, the DNR problems which coatrfeuts tilt centrations ofPCBs, a toxic in plants that dbcharga intonOr* said timt of Wisconsin's 3280 sod fertilizer to streams. dustrial chenpcaCHave been fact waters, 212 have been un miles of major livers, all hot Urban stormwater enters found in fab from Lake Wcht- proved or rebuilt in the last 909 mites already met national stresms after every rain, carry- fan, Lakefepin and part of five years. A total of 99 now water qnality standards that big pollutants from lawns, the upper Fox River. meat requirements of 1977 must be attained by 1983. streets and construction sites. Cleaning up discharges from state and federal affluent level Of tbs 703 major Industrial Solutions in this area are municipal sewage q' fct'MMt'Uimita. wastewater dischargers is the state, 411 appsered to be meet' tog affluent limits set for 1377, the report said. Financial projections m*t b. agmMat K6KI afl-