Partnership to restore tributary in Foxconn development

The American Transmission Company (ATC) is working with Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network (WIN) to help restore a portion of the Lamparek Ditch, a critical tributary of the impaired north branch of the Pike River in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Restoration efforts along this historically degraded riparian corridor will aim to promote regional clean water and ecosystem goals. 

ATC will provide funds to purchase and plant native vegetation along a new 1.2-mile transmission line corridor between County Trunk Highway (CTH) H and 90th Street, pictured below. Enhanced seeding and plantings of native, floristically diverse vegetation will help reduce runoff of pollutants, create wildlife habitat, and increase floodwater storage capacity for the watershed....

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Ken Notes: I have suggested that we could make Foxconn a model for environmental friendly development. this is a nice first step. I hope if ATC gets permission for the "Driftless" line we see prairie restoration under the lines. Oh and a lot more...