SURFACE WATER PROTECTION
The Public Health Madison and Dane County (PHMDC) maintains a routine surveillance and sampling schedule of area lakes, streams, primary and secondary outfalls, and point and non-point source run-off to ground surface, wetlands, and surface waters. The samples are analyzed in the PHMDC laboratory for selected metals and inorganic indicators of environmental conditions. The PHMDC currently regulates 165 permitted point source discharges of nonstorm water to the five Madison area lakes.
For information about road salt and impacts on our lake and ground water quality, see the
Road Salt Report.
