This past Monday, numerous media outlets, including WORT, reported that the Lafayette County Land Conservation Committee would not vote on a resolution that sought to prosecute journalists and discipline county officials for how they handle information relating to a water quality study in southwest Wisconsin. However, that resolution remained on the agenda and was taken […]
Don’t Drink the Water in Southwest Wisconsin
In Southwestern Wisconsin, about half of the residents in Grant, Iowa, and Lafayette Counties get their drinking water from private wells rather than municipal systems, but a recent study is calling the quality of that water into question. The Southwest Wisconsin Groundwater and Geology (SWIGG) study was funded to research the quality of the drinking […]
