Jerry

I am surprised that you don't seem to be concerned about the quailty of the water in Castle Rock or Pentenwell

All of us need to be screamming bloody murder at our local, state and federal officials

Below is a copy of the report I received from the DNR it is down right scary

Please give me a call so we can discuss the results further. It was pretty obvious there was a problem with blue-green algae. Mycrosystin was at 440,795 cells/ml. The World Health Organization for "High Health" risk is 100,000 cells/ml. We used your photographs and this data for a presentation to the Natural Resources Board - thank you! They recently approved the Phosphorus Rule so I think this showed them they did the right thing. There is still a lot to be done, but the important thing is, it has started.

DNR does not have jurisdiction to post these areas. The Department of Health (usually the county office) can do that. DOH is aware of the sample taken at your property as well as the other samples taken on Petenwell and Castle Rock. You might be interested to know that the highest blue green count reported came from Petenwell at over 3 million cells/ml!!! Its important that the public notifies the DOH when conditions like Klein Creek are believed to be linked to health problems with people and pets. That triggers a series of events that require sampling and confirmation which is necessary to document these conditions. Thanks for reporting it!

Our first season of monitoring for the Wisconsin River TMDL project is winding down. This is the first step to take to get us closer to reducing these blooms. I urge you to contact PACRS and become active in the organization. They are a great group and are totally on top of things out there.

Scott

P Scott Provost, P.S.
Water Resources Specialist-WDNR
473 Griffith Avenue
Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494
(*) phone: 715.421.7881
(*) fax: 715.421.7830
(*) e-mail: scott.provost@wisconsin.gov