The WAM program provides funding to address specific brownfield locations where closed or closing industrial plants are acting as impediments to economic redevelopment. The DNR's Remediation and Redevelopment (RR) Program administers funds through WAM contractor services awards.This dataset does not include locations whose documents have not yet been reviewed for mapping.To view more contamination data layers see the RR Sites Map at https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/Brownfields/rrsm.html, or for specific site information search BRRTS on the Web at https://dnr.wi.gov/botw/SetUpBasicSearchForm.do

Sewer Service Area (SSA) Plans have been developed for twenty-six 208 Water Quality Areas within the Designated ‘208’ Water Quality Planning Area of the East Central Region. SSA Plans are required underWisconsin Administrative Code NR-121 for certain communities within Wisconsin and assist in maintaining and improving water quality within the State by outlining areas which are able to accommodate sewered development in a well-managed environment as well as delineatingEnvironmentally Sensitive Areas which preclude such development. SSA Plans also serve as the long-term plan (20-40 years) for the community’s wastewater treatment plant and collection infrastructure and are used as guidance during the Facilities Planning process established under Wisconsin Administrative Code NR-110. East Central prepares and administers SSA Plans under an agreement and funding arrangement with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The plans are meant to be flexible and are periodically updated (approximately every 5-6 years) in order to accommodate unanticipated changes in the community. All twenty-six SSA Plans, initially prepared in 1985, will have been updated at least once by the end of 2002. An SSA Plan Update Schedule has been developed for future plan updates which will ensure their review on a timely basis. This schedule will be subject to some changes based on timing, funding, and other local priorities. SSA Plan amendments and updates are reviewed/completed by staff and submitted to the Commission’s Community Facilities Committee (CFC) and/or the full Commission for approval. Once the Commission has approved the plan modification, it is submitted to the WDNR for final review and certification. Please note that the plan amendment process can take up to 3 months from start to finish! The Commission’s SSA Amendment procedures are contained within the individual SSA Plan documents. Additional, general information on Sewer Service Area Plans can be found on the Wisconsin DNR’s Sewer Service Area Planning Web Page. East Central is also responsible for the review of public sanitary sewer extensions, facilities plans, and the subsequent issuance of Water Quality Management Letters (sometimes referred to as ‘WQM’ or ‘208’ letters). These letters are required by WDNR to ensure that the proposed project is consistent with the existing Water Quality Management SSA) Plan. Please note that the ‘208’ review process can take up to 30 days and submittals should allow for this!

This data set was collected to provide wetland information for use in county, city, village, and town planning activities in the respective counties and for regional planning activities in Southeastern Wisconsin. This was clipped from a data set that consists of digital map files containing point and polygon features of wetland information covering Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington, and Waukesha Counties. The files were compiled by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission on behalf of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources as part of a cooperative agreement to update the Wisconsin Wetland Inventory in Southeastern Wisconsin. Each file covers one U.S. Public Land Survey System survey township, for a total of 82 files in the data set. The survey township files have also been merged into files covering entire counties. The digital map files were compiled with reference to one-inch-equals-100-feet-scale and one-inch-equals-200-feet-scale orthophotography acquired in the Spring of 2010, and also with reference to land use, vegetation, topographic, and soils information.

To view more contamination data layers, see the RR Sites Map at https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/Brownfields/rrsm.html, or for specific site information search BRRTS on the Web at https://apps.dnr.wi.gov/rrbotw/botw-search

Ephemeral ponds have standing water present only a portion of the year, drying up later in the summer. The drying phase excludes fish, and their absence as a predator and competitor makes these ponds ideal breeding habitat for a variety of amphibians, macroinvertebrates, and other wildlife during spring and early summer. During the wet phase eggs are laid, hatch, and the young must complete development to emerge as air-breathing adults before the pond dries up. Citizen monitoring started in 2008 in southeastern Wisconsin, with training sessions carried out by a Citizen Monitoring Network of more than 12 Partner organizations working with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and UW-Extension. In the first two years of monitoring adult volunteers in Sheboygan, Ozaukee, Washington, Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties have monitored 159 sites. They paid monthly visits to areas mapped as "potential ephemeral ponds" or PEPs, using a simple one-page field sheet to document water presence, size, depth and other physical characteristics. WDNR uses citizen data to help confirm whether a mapped PEP is an ephemeral pond.The Wisconsin Ephemeral Ponds Project (WEPP) was initiated in 2006 when the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC) began mapping ephemeral ponds through air photo interpretation and collecting physical and biological data on ephemeral ponds in southeastern Wisconsin. The project has two main goals: to improve techniques to map small ephemeral ponds that are often missed on wetland inventory maps, and to characterize their physical and hydrological variety, and their ecological significance. Additional information about this effort can be found at these websites: http://watermonitoring.uwex.edu/level1/wepp/index.html and https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/Wetlands/documents/reportEphemeralPondsMappingAccuracyAssessment.pdf.