Madison Water Ways
News from your stormwater utility

• Spring 2012
• Winter 2011
• Fall 2011
• Summer 2011

Rain Gardens

• What is a Rain Garden?
• Terrace Rain Garden Program
• 1,000 Rain Gardens Initiative
• Rain Garden Specification for Commercial Sites
• Rain Garden Planting Designs
• Rain Garden Study (USGS)

Yard care

• Leave the Leaf
• Composting (UW Extension)
• Home Composting (DNR)
• Rethinking Yard Care (pdf)
• Lawn & Garden Fertlizers (pdf)
• Managing Leaves & Yard Trimmings (pdf)
• Wisconsin Native Plant Sources (pdf)
• Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscaping

Waterways Projects

• Wingra Creek
• Lake Wingra Dam
• Starkweather Creek
• Monona Bay Shoreline Cleanup

Studies & Reports

• Clean Lakes Water Quality Report
• Rain Garden Study - USGS
• Street Sweeping Study - USGS
• Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) Permit

CoNSTRUCTION PROJECTS

• Owen Park Ponds
• Kettle Pond
• Dunn's Marsh Storm Pond
• Lake Edge Park Catchment
• Stormwater Treatment Devices

Collaborations &
Area Interest Groups

COLLABORATIONS

• Madison Area Municipal Stormwater Partnership
• Urban Water Sustainability Council
• Yahara Lakes Legacy Partnership

• Black Earth Creek Watershed Assoc.
• Capitol Water Trails LTD
• Friends of Lake Wingra
• Friends of Monona Bay
• Friends of Pheasant Branch
• Friends of Starkweather Creek
• Upper Sugar River Watershed Assoc.