Adaptive Management and Water Quality Trading Project Locations
This map depicts WPDES permit holders that have formally selected adaptive management or water quality trading as their preferred phosphorus compliance option. Select a pin on the map to view more information about the permit holder, including the Notice of Intent (NOI) submitted to the DNR. Permittees identify themselves by submitting either a Notice of Intent to Trade or an Adaptive Management (AM) Request Form to the DNR. If you would like to be identified on this map in advance of form submittals, contact Matt Claucherty.
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West Salem Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0020389)
This project involves sediment removal from Neshonoc Lake throughout 2020 and 2021. Ongoing monitoring to verify effectiveness is required.
Monticello Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0024830)
Monticello will work with eroding streambank sites on the West Branch Little Sugar River and Unnamed Tributary WBIC 881500. Phosphorus in eroded soil is quantified with the NRCS estimator spreadsheet tool.
Hub Rock Sanitary District #1 Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0049689)
Hub Rock will complete the Brendon Clarke/Engine Creek streambank restoration project on the southeast side of Yuba.
Kieler Sanitary District #1 Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0029289)
Kieler's WQT plan is to perform streambank stabilization to the Sinnipee Creek which will utilize grading and/or riprap to prevent the erosion of sediment from the streambanks.
Patch Grove Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0022705)
The Village plans to perform streambank stabilization to unnamed tributary to Blake Fork (Middle Grant River Watershed, GP05 - Grant-Platte River Basin) at Outfall 001.
Fenwood Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0031411)
This project will work with Miltrim Farms, Inc. to implement cover crops.
Watertown Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0028541)
The City will implement a combination of best management practices, including wetland restoration and perennial vegetation on fields it owns.
Shullsburg Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0028321)
This project plans to perform streambank stabilization to the Shullsburg Branch utilizing grading and/or riprap to prevent the erosion of sediment from the streambanks.
Loganville Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0029114)
The Village intends to perform streambank stabilization to Narrows Creek and barnyard containment projects utilizing a roofed and curbed concrete barnyard with onsite manure storage to eliminate any manure runoff from the farm site.
Janesville Wastewater Utility
(WI-0030350)
The City of Janesville will work with the Rock County Land Conservation Department to assist in nonpoint source control practices including working with landowners and conducting annual inspections to verify all management measures are installed and properly maintained.
Fort Atkinson Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0022489)
The City of Fort Atkinson has installed a tertiary treatment that exceeds regulatory standards and therefore may generate phosphorus credits to facilitate urban stormwater TMDL compliance.
Spring Green Golf Club Sanitary District #2 Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0028363)
This water quality trading effort involves a partnership between the Sanitary District, Farmer-led Watershed Group, and Sand County Foundation. Various projects seek to improve water quality and promote ethical land management within the Lowery Creek Watershed.
Potosi-Tennyson Sewage Commission WWTF
(WI-0021547)
The Potosi-Tennyson Sewage Commission has partnered with Alliant Energy to exceed regulatory standards by establishing perennial prairie vegetation on approximately 1700 acres of solar array sites as part of the Grant County and Cassville Solar Projects.
Viroqua Watewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0021920)
Viroqua has completed two water quality trades involving streambank stabilization - one on city owned land adjacent to the wastewater treatment facility and one on private land.
Blue River Wasterwater Treatment Facility
(WI-0023418)
The Village intends to perform WQT projects upstream of the outfall and within the Village's HUC-12 #070700051407 watershed via streambank stabilization.
Prairie Du Chien Wastewater Treatment Facilty
(WI-0020257)
The City plans to perform streambank stabilization within the city's HUC-12 #070600011003.
Cassville Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0021423)
The Village intends to perform WQT projects upstream of the outfall and within the Village's HUC-12 #070600030706 watershed via streambank stabilization.
Grafton Water & Wastewater Utility
(WI-0020184)
Grafton is undertaking an adaptive management effort for the Milwaukee River.
Mineral Point Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0024791)
This water quality effort focuses on stabilizing eroding streambanks to generate phosphorus credits.
Sextonville Sanitary District #1 WWTF
(WI-0060038)
The water quality effort focuses on stabilizing eroding streambanks to generate phosphorus credits.
Stratford Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0024469)
The Village of Stratford is working with local agricultural producers to convert fields to perennial grass-hay cover to generate phosphorus credits.
Columbus Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0021008)
This project employs a number of agricultural best management practices to generate credits and achieve compliance with a local NR 217.13 water quality based effluent limit for phosphorus.
Phillips Plating Corporation
(WI-0041149)
Phillips Plating Corporation is working with upstream agricultural producers to reduce phosphorus inputs from barnyards and farm fields.
Norway Sanitary District No. 1 Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0031470)
Norway Sanitary District is working with a nearby farm to establish cover crops on agricultural fields to reduce soil and phosphorus contributions to surface waters.
Cross Plains Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0020788)
The City of Cross Plains is working with local agricultural producers to reduce runoff from barnyards, thereby generating phosphorus credits.
Belmont Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0020419)
The Village of Belmont proposes to generate phosphorus credits through streambank stabilization.
Beloit Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0023370)
The City of Beloit is partnering with Rock County Land Conservation Department and local agricultural producers to implement a variety of best management practices.
Albany Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0021199)
Albany proposes to generate phosphorus credits through perennial vegetation establishment and restoration of a riverside golf course.
Eleva Strum Joint Sewerage Commission WWTF
(WI-0064998)
This project proposes generating phosphorus credits through streambank stabilization.
Great Lakes Investors LLC WWTF
(WI-0060607)
Great Lakes Investors are working with nearby landowners to implement agricultural best management practices, including riparian buffers.
BelGioioso Cheese Inc. - Freedom Plant
(WI-0044938)
BelGioioso will implement management practices to generate TP and TSS credits on portions of BelGioioso’s fields which are also within the Middle Duck Creek Subwatershed.
Beloit Town Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0026930)
The Town of Beloit has purchased credits from the City of Columbus Wastewater Treatment Facility to comply with Rock River TMDL-derived limits.
Arcadia Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0023230)
Arcadia, in partnership with the Trempealeau County Department of Land Management, will be stabilizing streambanks upstream from their WWTF to generate phosphorus credits.
Baker Cheese
(WI-0050521)
Baker Cheese purchased 20 acres of agricultural cropland adjacent to their facility and converted this land from cropping practices to prairie, rather than installing expensive treatment technology to comply with the phosphorus limits. This change in land use reduced non-point source phosphorus pollution by about 70 lbs/year and generated sufficient phosphorus credits for Baker Cheese to comply with their phosphorus limits. It also provided habitat for wildlife and has the potential for other recreational benefits. This trade also reduced diesel inputs and carbon emissions since the company is no longer hauling waste off-site.
BelGioioso Cheese Inc.
(WI-0065579)
This project is focusing on generating credits from agricultural nonpoint sources through natural prairie restoration to offset a new discharge.
Bemis Manufacturing Corporation
(WI-0027456)
Bemis Manufacturing has converted agricultural fields to permanent grassland to generate phosphorus credits to be used at their nearby facility.
Blue Mounds Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0055611)
The Blue Mounds Adaptive Management Plan will focus on lowering in-stream phosphorus concentrations of Williams-Barneveld Creek through agricultural best management practices.
Brodhead WWTF
(WI-0021903)
This project is focusing on generating credits within the village of Brodhead through storm water detention and other urban BMPs as well as from agricultural nonpoint sources through nutrient management activities. Wetland restoration and sediment control basins are also being considered.
Brooklyn Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0023485)
This project seeks to generate phosphorus credits by implementing filter strips along Allen Creek in Green County.
Brown County Organics
(WI-0066303)
BC Organics, LLC, plans to use water quality trading to comply with phosphorus limits for the new BC Organics wastewater facility. Credits will be generated by conversion of 15 acres of cropland to native prairie grassland and installation of wet detention ponds to treat runoff.
City of Burlington Water Pollution Control Facility
(WI-0022962)
The city of Burlington plans to achieve phosphorus compliance via adaptive management efforts within the Fox River watershed.
Cambridge Oakland Wastewater Commission
(WI-0026948)
Cambridge-Oakland's adaptive management plan will work within the Koshkonong Creek Watershed to reduce agricultural phosphorus runoff by establishing buffer strips and engaging producers in nutrient management planning. Streambank stabilization may also be employed.
Conrath Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0032522)
This project utilizes phosphorus credits generated by agricultural nonpoint pollutant reductions to achieve compliance.
Cuba City Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0022217)
Cuba City's adaptive management plan will work within the Coon Branch Watershed of the Fever River to achieve the phosphorus criterion in-stream. Proposed efforts include nutrient management planning, establishment of perennial vegetation and streambank stabilization.
DNR Nevin Fish Hatchery
(WI-0002585)
A joint adaptive management plan is underway to help implement the requirements of the Rock River TMDL; improve the health of the Madison lakes and surrounding surface waters, and; meet the phosphorus regulatory requirements for the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (WI-0024597), Stoughton WWTF (WI-0020338), Oregon WWTF (WI-0020681) and DNR Nevin Fish Hatchery (WI-0002585). Permitted municipal storm sewer systems in the Madison area may also partner in this project to meet their Rock River TMDL reduction requirements for phosphorus and total suspended solids (TSS) in all participating permits. The Yahara WINS Adaptive Management plan has been deemed approvable.
Dane-Iowa WWTF
(WI-0049816)
This project is focusing on improving water quality within Black Earth Creek, a cold water trout fishery. Dane County Land and Water Resources Department is assisting the Dane-Iowa WWTF to create partnerships with local landowners and to find and implement nonpoint source projects. The Dane-Iowa AM plan has been deemed approvable and the permit reissuance process is currently underway to include Adaptive Management language and requirements.
Darlington Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0021016)
This project will generate phosphorus credits through streambank stabilization, barnyard practices and sediment control basins. These practices will be installed adjacent to the Pecatonica River and tributaries near Darlington.
Deerfield Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0023744)
The village of Deerfield is pursuing adaptive management as a means to comply with total phosphorus limits at their WWTF. The village will partner with Dane County Land and Water Resources Department and local landowners to reduce phosphorus runoff throughout the Mud Creek Watershed.
Devils Lake
(WI-0060241)
This project is focusing on generating credits from agricultural nonpoint sources by converting cropland to a recreational area and expansion of the Devils Lake State Park. The WI Devils Lake permit has been reissued to include water quality trade language and requirements.
Fontana Walworth Water Pollution Control Commission
(WI-0036021)
The project will generate phosphorus credits by treating agricultural runoff from farm fields near the wastewater treatment facility.
Greenwood Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0020249)
The Greenwood water quality trade involves partnering with multiple landowners to reduce agricultural runoff through whole field management and establishment of perennial vegetation.
Heart of the Valley
(WI-0031232)
This project seeks to generate TSS credits by establishing permanent riparian buffers and working with landowners to adjust tillage practices.
LaGrander's Hillside Dairy
(WI-0054364)
This project is focusing on generating credits from agricultural nonpoint sources by converting cropland to permanent grassland.
Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District
(WI-0024597)
A joint adaptive management plan is underway to help implement the requirements of the Rock River TMDL; improve the health of the Madison lakes and surrounding surface waters, and; meet the phosphorus regulatory requirements for the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (WI-0024597), Stoughton WWTF (WI-0020338), Oregon WWTF (WI-0020681) and DNR Nevin Fish Hatchery (WI-0002585). Permitted municipal storm sewer systems in the Madison area may also partner in this project to meet their Rock River TMDL reduction requirements for phosphorus and total suspended solids (TSS) in all participating permits. The Yahara WINS Adaptive Management plan has been deemed approvable.
Montfort Wastewater Treatment Plant
(WI-0024821)
The project is focusing on generating phosphorus credits by establishing permanent vegetation at a streamside cattle lot.
Mount Horeb Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0020281)
This project will generate phosphorus credits utilizing streambank stabilization and conservation cover in agricultural fields.
Mukwonago Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0020265)
Mukwonago's adaptive management efforts include streambank stabilization, agricultural runoff reductions and point source reductions within the Fox River Watershed.
NEW Water
(WI-0065251)
NEW Water's adaptive management efforts will focus on phosphorus reductions throughout Ashwaubenon and Dutchman Creek Watersheds.
Oconomowoc WWTF
(WI-0021181)
This adaptive management project is focusing on meeting phosphorus standards within the Oconomowoc River prior to the confluence with the Rock River. This project will help Oconomowoc WWTF comply with phosphorus regulations and will also help meet the goals of the Rock River TMDL for the area is question. The Oconomowoc municipal separate storm sewer system is also partnering with the WWTF. The Oconomowoc adaptive management plan has been deemed approvable and the permit reissuance process is currently underway to include adaptive management language and requirements.
Oregon WWTF
(WI-0020681)
A joint adaptive management plan is underway to help implement the requirements of the Rock River TMDL; improve the health of the Madison lakes and surrounding surface waters, and; meet the phosphorus regulatory requirements for the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (WI-0024597), Stoughton WWTF (WI-0020338), Oregon WWTF (WI-0020681) and DNR Nevin Fish Hatchery (WI-0002585). Permitted municipal storm sewer systems in the Madison area may also partner in this project to meet their Rock River TMDL reduction requirements for phosphorus and total suspended solids (TSS) in all participating permits. The Yahara WINS Adaptive Management plan has been deemed approvable.
Poplar Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0049760)
Poplar, in partnership with Douglas County Land & Water Conservation Department, will pursue water quality trading using agricultural practices and/or conservation easements.
Plymouth Utilities WWTF
(WI-0030031)
They city of Plymouth is using adaptive management to comply with phosphorus limits at their WWTF. With partners Sheboygan County and McMahon Associates, this effort will focus on reducing in-stream phosphorus concentrations of the Mullet River through agricultural and urban practices.
Village of Slinger Wastewater Treatment Plant
(WI-0020249)
This project proposes to generate phosphorus credits by stabilizing eroding streambanks.
Sparta WWTF
(WI-0020737)
This project is focusing on generating credits within the Village of Sparta through storm water detention and other urban BMPs as well as from agricultural nonpoint sources through grass waterway and grade stabilization projects. Some reductions have been reviewed and approved by DNR in advance of permit reissuance and final plan approval. These reductions will not be counted towards permit compliance until permit reissuance.
Springfield Clean Water
(WI-0065889)
This project is focusing on generating phosphorus and TSS credits within the Rock River TMDL area for a new discharge. Grassed waterways will be installed to generate credits.
Stoughton WWTF
(WI-0020338)
A joint adaptive management plan is underway to help implement the requirements of the Rock River TMDL; improve the health of the Madison lakes and surrounding surface waters, and; meet the phosphorus regulatory requirements for the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (WI-0024597), Stoughton WWTF (WI-0020338), Oregon WWTF (WI-0020681) and DNR Nevin Fish Hatchery (WI-0002585). Permitted municipal storm sewer systems in the Madison area may also partner in this project to meet their Rock River TMDL reduction requirements for phosphorus and total suspended solids (TSS) in all participating permits. The Yahara WINS Adaptive Management plan has been deemed approvable.
Superior Fresh
(WI-0065200)
Superior Fresh, in partnership with the Jackson County Land Conservation Department, has stabilized eroding streambanks to generate phosphorus credits. These credits will be used for compliance with total phosphorus limits for the Superior Fresh Aquaponics Facility located in the Pigeon Creek Watershed.
Tomah Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0021318)
This project is focusing on improving water quality within the Little Lemonwier River Watershed. Monroe County Land and Water Conservation Department is assisting the Tomah WWTF to create partnerships with local landowners and to find and implement nonpoint source projects. The Tomah AM plan has been deemed approvable.
US Army Headquarters, Fort McCoy
(WI-0022420)
The Fort McCoy Adaptive Management Plan will focus on reducing in-stream phosphorus concentrations of the La Crosse River. This will be accomplished through agricultural practices such as nutrient management, contour farming, cover crops and riparian buffers as practices implemented throughout the watershed.
VPP Group, Inc. (WI-0052931)
This project is focusing on generating credits in Monroe County through streambank stabilization projects.
Village of Hawkins Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0024201)
The village of Hawkins water quality trade involves reducing tillage and manure applications to streamside farm fields upstream from the WWTF. These practices will generate credits used for compliance with total phosphorus limits.
WE Energies Paris Generating Station
(WI-0049131)
This project proposes to generate phosphorus credits through conversion of agricultural land to native prairie vegetation.
WPL - Riverside Engergy Center
(WI-0061441)
This project is focusing on conversion of company owned fields from agricultural use to permanent grassland and greenspace adjacent to their Beloit, WI, facility.
Weyerhaeuser Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0020761)
This project will generate phosphorus credits through conversion of high intensity row crop farm fields to perennial vegetation.
Wisconsin Whey Protein, LLC
(WI-0066371)
Wisconsin Whey's water quality trade plan focuses on generating phosphorus credits by converting agricultural fields to permanent grassland.
Western Racine County Sewerage District
(WI-0028754)
Western Racine County Sewerage District is undertaking adaptive management in partnership with the Southeastern Wisconsin Fox River Commission (SEWFRC), the Watershed Protection Committee of Racine County (WPCR), and County Land and Water Conservation Departments. The Action Area encompasses seven subwatersheds within the Fox River Watershed. Agriculture is a major land use within the Action Area, and several phosphorus loss reduction practices were identified to be compatible with corn production.
Beaver Dam Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0023345)
The City of Beaver Dam, in partnership with the Beaver Dam Lake Improvement Association, amongst others, will pursue adaptive management for Reaches 34, 33, 82, and 32 of the Rock River Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). Efforts will target reductions from agricultural sources of phosphorus to improve Beaver Dam Lake, as well as the WWTF's receiving water.
Independence Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0024287)
The City of Independence has restored eroding streambanks within Four Seasons Park, and at another upstream site, to generate phosphorus credits for use at the City's wastewater treatment facility.
Belmont Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0020419)
The Village of Belmont graded and placed rock rip rap on roughly 7,000 feet of streambank to generate phosphorus credits for their wastewater treatment facility.
Wauzeka Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0022276)
The Village of Wauzeka constructed two infiltration basins to treat agricultural runoff. These basins, along with streambank stabilization projects, generate 236 lbs/yr of phosphorus credit for the Wauzeka WWTF.
Seneca Foods Corporation - Mayville Plant
(WI-0050822)
Seneca Foods converted row crop agricultural land into perennial vegetation to generate phosphorus and TSS credits for their discharge.
Bloomington Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0023400)
The Village of Bloomington has graded and placed rip rap on roughly 5,000 feet of eroding streambank to generate phosphorus credits for use at the Bloomington WWTF.
Belleville Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0023361)
The Village of Belleville has contracted with nearby landowners to convert row crop agriculture to perennial grass/hay and stabilize eroding streambanks. These practices generate phosphorus credits for compliance with stringent phosphorus limits at the Belleville WWTF.
Monroe Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0020362)
The City of Monroe plans to generate credits with a number of urban and agricultural practices.
Augusta Wastewater Treatment Facility
(WI-0023272)
Augusta's water quality trading plan proposes to generate 211 lbs/yr of phosphorus credits through streambank stabilization and buffer projects to improve water quality at Diamond Valley Creek.
Grande Cheese Company - Brownsville
(WI-0050016)
Grande Cheese - Brownsville proposes to take cropland out of production and place into permanent vegetative cover for the generation of 188 lbs/yr of phosphorus credits.