Chamber Member Luncheon

Chamber Member Luncheon
Thursday, September 21st
 Topic:  “Suck the Muck from Madison Lakes”
 Presenter:  Joe Parisi, Dane County Executive
 
*Describe Dane County’s breakthrough in our work to clean the Yahara Chain of Lakes.     *Explain the initiative that will clean up 33 miles of streams that feed phosphorus into the lakes daily for $12 million over four years.   *Describe how this project will remove 870,000 pounds of phosphorus, the chief culprit responsible for algae growth, from area waters.  *Explain how accrued sludge that sits at the bottom of these streams is not removed, it will take 99 years to see a 50% reduction in phosphorus that finds its way into the lakes.  Show that the legacy phosphorous that sits in the bottom of our streams is nearly 125 years old and is a much greater contributor to the health of our lakes than earlier thought.