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Peter And Suzie Arnold Receive Conservation Farm Award
BEPCOOfficers, Mike Paul , President , and Doug Eisele, Vice-president, and Board member, Scott Borchardt, attended the Wisconsin Conservation Observance Day on June 25. This event honored the recipients, Peter and Suzie Arnold, of Edgar, as the Wisconsin Conservation Farmer Award Recipients from the Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association. BEPCO wishes to congratulate Peter and Suzie on receiving this award. The farming practices of the Arnolds are progressive. Their environmental management is outstanding. The Arnolds are true stewards of the land and comply with all state performance standards for manure management, diversion of clean water, erosion standards, and buffers. Their farm has a soil erosion rate of a mere 0.1 ton per acre vs. the State standard of 4 tons, and Marathon County’s average of 2.3 tons. Their efforts help to improve the quality of the Big Eau Pleine basin. Our special thanks to Peter and Suzie for your concern for your neighbors and the environment.
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Mike Paul, Peter Arnold and Doug Eisele
Picture courtesy of the Record-Review, Abbotsford, WI
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The Big Eau Pleine Flowage is listed on Wisconsin's 303d impaired waters list for violations of dissolved oxygen and pH water quality standards. The Big Eau Pleine River is also listed for dissolved oxygen violations. Both listings are a result of excessive nutrient loading to the river and flowage. The Department of Natural Resources is scheduled to conduct a multi-year water quality study starting in 2009 to develop a TMDL (Total Maximum Daily Load) for the river and flowage. During the next two years, a volunteer will be collecting monthly water quality samples to provide supplemental loading data from the Big Eau Pleine River to the Big Eau Pleine Flowage. The volunteer collects these samples on a monthly basis and ships them to the State Lab of Hygiene for nutrient analysis. This effort saves the Department approximately 1.5 hours of driving time on each sampling trip.
Contact:
Mark Hazuga
DNR Water Resources Biologist
715.839.3700
mark.hazuga@wisconsin.gov
