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Chloride Conditions and Trends Among Lakes in Southeastern Wisconsin: 1960s to Present
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2026Metadata
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This presentation will focus on presenting results of Chloride conditions and trends among lakes in Southeastern Wisconsin as part the SEWRPC Technical Report No. 63 Chloride Conditions and Trends (https://www.sewrpc.org/Regional-Planning/Chloride-Study). The overarching goal is to summarize the extent to which waterbodies in the study area have been impacted by chloride pollution and to what degree chloride conditions in these waterbodies are improving, becoming worse, or remaining stable. Hence, this presentation focuses on chloride concentration and specific conductivity data collected from the 1960s to 2022 in the study area lakes. This information combined with classification data such as watershed size, lake area, residence time, percent composition of urban and rural land uses, and land use changes over time were included in this analysis. Finally, several case studies for selected lakes or groups of lakes for chloride and/or specific conductance trends, using the best data sets, are summarized.
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This presentation will focus on presenting results of Chloride conditions and trends among lakes in Southeastern Wisconsin as part the SEWRPC Technical Report No. 63 Chloride Conditions and Trends (https://www.sewrpc.org/Regional-Planning/Chloride-Study). The overarching goal is to summarize the extent to which waterbodies in the study area have been impacted by chloride pollution and to what degree chloride conditions in these waterbodies are improving, becoming worse, or remaining stable. Hence, this presentation focuses on chloride concentration and specific conductivity data collected from the 1960s to 2022 in the study area lakes. This information combined with classification data such as watershed size, lake area, residence time, percent composition of urban and rural land uses, and land use changes over time were included in this analysis. Finally, several case studies for selected lakes or groups of lakes for chloride and/or specific conductance trends, using the best data sets, are summarized.