[cogitator]

I grew up in New London, WI and went to college at UW-Oshkosh. One of the big environmental issues while I was in high school and college was the sad state of the Fox River that flows from Lake Winnebago to Green Bay. At the time, it was a mess. It's substantially better now, and the improvement shows that progress can be made. It's still got problems, mainly PCBs, but they're being addressed.

[GreenFreeper]

I don't worry too much about PCB's, they often are trapped under the sediment layer. Evil environmental consulting firms (I can name quite a few) use somewhat stabilized PCB measures from underneath the sediment to push environmentally hazardous and costly dredging. Then they have no where to dump the toxic sediment, which begins a whole new debate.

Speaking of eutrophication, you ever go to Lake Koshkenog (spelling?). My grandmother lived on that lake near Edgerton, WI until she passed away a few years ago. That has to be the most algae fill lake I have ever seen!