Yahara WINS partnership continues effort to keep phosphorus out of area waters
MADISON, WI – Partners in the Yahara Watershed Improvement Network kept nearly 50,000 pounds of phosphorus out of local waterways in 2018, the second full year of a 20-year project to reduce algae blooms and improve water quality in the Yahara River watershed. Project highlights in 2018 included the addition of Columbia County as a project partner, innovative research into advanced manure composting, and recognition of the Yahara WINS partnership by the U.S. Water Alliance.
