Who's Going? Lisa Is!
To Clean Water Lobby Day at the Capitol
Lisa Anderson is a tenacious advocate for safe drinking water in her community of Nelsonville. Lisa became concerned about Nelsonville’s drinking water (residents there rely on private wells) when one high nitrate report after another piqued her attention. Lisa organized community drinking water testing to help residents avoid unsafe water, with the result that over 40% of wells were found to be unsafe for nitrate. Her attention then shifted to looking for the sources of nitrate (overwhelmingly local agriculture) and the problem of how Nelsonville will get safe water.
Come join Lisa and lots of your central Wisconsin water friends, and water advocates from around the state at Clean Water Lobby Day on January 30. This year is especially critical: 2019 was the Year of Clean Drinking Water and there’s work for us all to do. The legislative Water Quality Task Force just released its recommendations. PFAS pollution is a new concern. And we finally are getting some attention on nitrate. Also let’s not forget the Central Sands Lakes Study needs to be prodded along. In these times of record rainfall, it’s easy to imagine legislators “forgetting” about the pumping issue.
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