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This is a list of Superfund sites in Wisconsin designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
This is a list of landfills in the United States. A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment . Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world.
Landfill bans make it illegal to dispose of certain items in a landfill. Most often these items include yard waste, oil, and recyclables easily collected in curbside recycling programs. States with landfill bans of recyclables include Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Michigan, [4] and North Carolina. [5] Other states focus on recycling goals.
It is presumed that at the end of the 30-year period, the landfill will be stable and will no longer require intensive monitoring. [1] Today, landfills are designed from the start to ensure protection of the environment and public health, and the safe and productive use of the site after closure. [3]
A general map of Wisconsin. Wisconsin, a state in the Midwestern United States, has a vast and diverse geography famous for its landforms created by glaciers during the Wisconsin glaciation 17,000 years ago. The state can be generally divided into five geographic regions—Lake Superior Lowland, Northern Highland, Central Plain, Eastern Ridges ...
Before logging, the area that would become Hayward was a forest of pine and hardwoods cut by rivers and lakes. [9] In later years Ojibwe people dominated the area along with much of northern Wisconsin, [10] until the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, when they ceded it to the U.S. [11]
But if affordability makes the top of your list, two Wisconsin cities might be your best bets. Madison and Appleton are among the 100 best cities to live in the United States in 2024, according to ...
The Islamic Society of Northern Wisconsin Mosque in Altoona Of the 2,844 households 31.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.0% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.1% were non-families. 31.6% of households were one person and 14.7% were one person aged 65 or older.