TECHNICAL REPORT NO. 39 WATER QUALITY CONDITIONS AND SOURCES OF POLLUTION IN THE GREATER MILWAUKEE WATERSHEDS Part One of Three Chapters 1-4 SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION IN COOPERATION WITH THE MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICT WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION REGIONAL WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN UPDATE FOR THE GREATER MILWAUKEE WATERSHEDS KENOSHA COUNTY RACINE COUNTY Anita M. Faraone Susan S. Greenfield Daniel S. Schmidt, Chairman .......................... SEWRPC Commissioner Adelene Greene Mary A. Kacmarcik Michael G. Hahn, Secretary ................... Chief Environmental Engineer, Robert W. Pitts Michael J. Miklasevich Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission Julie A. Anderson ................................ Director, Racine County Division MILWAUKEE COUNTY WALWORTH COUNTY of Planning and Development Michael J. Ballweg ........................ Crops and Soils Agent, University of William R. Drew, Richard A. Hansen, Wisconsin-Extension, Sheboygan County Treasurer Vice-Chairman John R. Behrens .......................... Commissioner-Secretary, Silver Lake Lee Holloway Gregory L. Holden Protection and Rehabilitation District Allen L. Morrison John M. Bennett ...................................... City Engineer, City of Franklin Thomas J. Bunker .................. Retired General Manager, City of Racine Water and Wastewater Utility OZAUKEE COUNTY WASHINGTON COUNTY Lisa Conley ..................... Representative, Town and Country Resource Thomas H. Buestrin, Charlene S. Brady Conservation and Development, Inc. Chairman Daniel S. Schmidt Joyce A. Fiacco ........................................ Director, Dodge County Land William E. Johnson David L. Stroik Resources and Parks Department Gustav W. Wirth, Jr., Shawn Graff ....................................... Executive Director, The Ozaukee Secretary Washington Land Trust, Inc. Andrew A. Holschbach .................................. Director, Ozaukee County WAUKESHA COUNTY Planning, Resources, and Land Management Department James T. Dwyer William J. Hoppe ..................................... City Engineer, City of Mequon Anselmo Villareal William A. Kappel .............. Director of Public Works, City of Wauwatosa Paul G. Vrakas Steve Keith ......................................... Acting Director of Environmental Services, Milwaukee County Kristine M. Krause .................................. Vice-President, Environmental Department, We Energies James F. Lubner ...................... Sea Grant Advisory Services Specialist, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute Jeffrey J. Mantes ................................... Commissioner of Public Works, SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN REGIONAL City of Milwaukee PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF Lynn Mathias ........................................... County Land Conservationist, Fond du Lac County James L. McNelly ............................ Regional Water Leader, Wisconsin Philip C. Evenson, AICP ............................................ Executive Director Department of Natural Resources Kenneth R. Yunker, PE ................................................. Deputy Director Charles S. Melching ............ Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Nancy M. Anderson, AICP ........... Chief Community Assistance Planner Engineering, Marquette University Christopher T. Hiebert ............................ Chief Transportation Engineer Matthew Moroney .................. Executive Director, Metropolitan Builders Elizabeth A. Larsen .................................................. Business Manager Association of Greater Milwaukee John G. McDougall .............. Geographic Information Systems Manager Paul E. Mueller................................. Administrator, Washington County John R. Meland .......................... Chief Economic Development Planner Planning and Parks Department Dr. Donald M. Reed ......................................................... Chief Biologist Patrick A. Murphy ................................ State Resource Conservationist, Kenneth J. Schlager, PE................ Chief Telecommunications Engineer Natural Resources Conservation Service Donald P. Simon, RLS ..................................... Chief Planning Illustrator Cheryl Nenn ..............................................Riverkeeper/Project Director, William J. Stauber, AICP .................................. Chief Land Use Planner Friends of Milwaukee’s Rivers Jeffrey S. Nettesheim ............................................... Director of Utilities, Village of Menomonee Falls ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING DIVISION STAFF Judith A. Neu ..................................... City Engineer, City of West Bend Charles A. Peters ................ Director, Wisconsin Water Science Center, Michael G. Hahn, PE, PH ....................... Chief Environmental Engineer U.S. Geological Survey Robert P. Biebel, PE, PH ............................... Special Projects Engineer Kevin L. Shafer ....................................... Executive Director, Milwaukee Joseph E. Boxhorn ......................................................... Senior Planner Metropolitan Sewerage District Patricia M. Kokan ................................................................... Secretary Dale R. Shaver.................................. Director, Waukesha County Parks Aaron W. Owens ........................................................ Research Analyst and Land Use Department Ronald J. Printz, PE .................................................. Principal Engineer Peter G. Swenson .................. Branch Chief, NPDES Programs Branch, Edward J. Schmidt ............................................ GIS Planning Specialist U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thomas M. Slawski ..................................................... Principal Planner Sam Tobias ........................................... Director of Planning and Parks, Sara W. Teske ........................................................... Research Analyst Fond du Lac County Jeffrey A. Thornton, CLM, PH ...................................... Principal Planner Shawn L. Wesener ................ Assistant Planning Director, Planning and Daniel R. Treloar .................... Land and Water Conservation Specialist Resources Department, Sheboygan County Catherine D. West ..................................................................... Planner Thomas A. Wiza ................... Director of Engineering and Public Works, City of Cedarburg GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS DIVISION STAFF Special acknowledgement is due Mr. Martin A. Aquino, Environmental Manager, City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works; Mr. Mark Baran, former Interim Michael B. Scott ............................................ GIS Application Specialist District Conservationist for Ozaukee County; Ms. Marsha B. Burzynski, Program and Planning Analyst, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Mr. David E. Carpenter, retired Director of Planning and Development for Dodge County; Ms. Diane M. Georgetta, former Coordinator, Town and Country Resource Conserva- LAND USE PLANNING DIVISION STAFF tion and Development, Inc.; Ms. Elizabeth L. Gillen, Acting District Conservationist for Ozaukee County; Ms. Shannon K. Haydin, former Director, Sheboygan County David A. Schilling......................................................... Principal Planner Department of Planning and Resources; Ms. Judy Jooss, Representative, Town Kathryn E. Sobottke ..................................................... Senior Specialist and Country Resource Conservation and Development, Inc.; Mr. Charles J. Krohn, former Regional Water Leader for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources; Mr. David Lynch, retired Ozaukee County Conservationist; Mr. Gary A. Mick, retired Director Milwaukee County Environmental Services; Mr. Stephen Poloncsik, Senior UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EXTENSION Staff Engineer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and Ms. Gretchen Sawtelle, Executive Director, USDA Farm Services Agency, all of whom served on the Com- Gary K. Korb ............................................... Regional Planning Educator mittee during much of the planning process. TECHNICAL REPORT NUMBER 39 WATER QUALITY CONDITIONS AND SOURCES OF POLLUTION IN THE GREATER MILWAUKEE WATERSHEDS Part One of Three Chapters 1-4 Prepared by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission In Cooperation with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and the U.S. Geological Survey The preparation of this report was financed in part by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the continuing water quality management planning program conducted cooperatively by the Department and the Regional Planning Commission. November 2007 $20.00 This Page Intentionally Left Blank November 5, 2007 STATEMENT OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The information presented in this technical report provides an important basis for the formulation of the plan presented in SEWRPC Planning Report No. 50, An Update to the Regional Water Quality Management Plan for the Greater Milwaukee Watersheds, which was prepared pursuant to the provisions of Section 208 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act under a collaborative program involving the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage