The City has worked for over a decade on water quality master planning research, inspections, modeling, and reporting creation of a stormwater utility to fund maintenance and improvements and identification and implementation of individual water quality improvement projects which further increase the City’s stormwater quality performance.Ī cornerstone of the City of Middleton’s Water Quality Plan is Confluence Pond, located at the confluence of the north and south branches of the Pheasant Branch Creek, which empties into Lake Mendota. The City is subject to strict limitations on discharges of Total Phosphorus (TP) and Total Suspended Solids (TSS) per the Rock River Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL). As an MS4 community, the City of Middleton takes its responsibility for stormwater quality seriously.
The lakes are the centerpiece of the area’s natural beauty, but are suffering from water quality issues due to increasing urbanization and agricultural practices within the watershed. Middleton lies directly upstream of the Madison region’s famous Yahara Chain of Lakes. The City of Middleton is a thriving suburb of Wisconsin’s capital city, Madison. Stormwater quality master planning – assessment and action
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