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Manitowoc County board adopts 10-year land and water resource management plan
Summary
The County Board approved a 2026–2035 Land and Water Resource Management Plan after a presentation by the county soil and water director outlining priorities, cost estimates and staffing needs.
Manitowoc County supervisors voted to approve the county’s 2026–2035 Land and Water Resource Management Plan after a presentation by David Wittenkamp, Manitowoc County soil and water director.
Wittenkamp, who led the year-long planning process, told the board the plan compiles local input, technical review and state rules and is needed so the county can apply for grants and staff funding. He said the community and technical advisory committees ranked groundwater protection, surface-water contamination and soil health as top priorities: “They thought the groundwater of Lake Michigan and soil were the most important and they thought that we should focus on groundwater contamination surface water contamination and enforcing existing rules.”
The document, described during the meeting as roughly 150 pages, maps…
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