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hue

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Mon Feb 17, 2014, 08:28 PM Feb 2014

Bad River Watershed Association A Valuable Source

http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2014/02/bad-river-watershed-association.html

I am finding good information on the website of the Bad River Watershed Association, especially about the proposed iron ore mine.

Here's where and what the company wants to explode, dig up and mill - - leaving behind millions of tons of waste rock leaking and leaching God-knows-what dumped on wetlands and elsewhere upstream from Lake Superior. Look at all that water at risk - - as are other state waters under threat of deregulation and diversion to private uses if the same GOP legislators that rammed through the mining bill get their way with groundwater across the state.

Map showing streams designated by the State of Wisconsin as Outstanding and Exceptional Resource Waters (listed in NR 102.10 and NR 102.11), approximate location of the Gogebic iron ore body, potential GTAC mine site, and land owned by mining companies. Designated trout streams are also shown as a salmon color. Note that trout stream class (I, II, or III) is not shown and all ORW/ERW waters listed on this map are also designated as trout streams. ORW/ERW and trout stream data are available on Wisconsin DNR’s Surface Water Data Viewer website.
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Bad River Watershed Association A Valuable Source (Original Post) hue Feb 2014 OP
Walker's policies are literally killing people, as well as ruining the envirnment for eons. Scuba Feb 2014 #1
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