A retired hydrologist and local town board supervisor wrote a story for the Dunn County News in northwestern Wisconsin advocating ending the practice of land spreading septage in the state. Neil Koch argues that protecting groundwater might mean ending the practice popular with pumpers, especially in rural areas.Koch says there’s not enough oversight of land spreading, noting that there are 400 approved spreading sites in his home Dunn County and one DNR person to monitor them along with thousands of sites in 16 other counties.He says many of the approved sites may not have the proper permeability characteristics for land
