watershed.   These plants served the following land uses:     Fonk's Mobile Home
Park No. 2 in Racine County; and Brightondale County Park, George Connolly
Development, Howard Johnson Motor Lodge, Kenosha Packing Company (currently
Kenosha Beef International Company), Meeter Brothers Company, Wisconsin Tourist
Information Center, and Paramski Mobil Home Park (currently Rainbow Lake Manor
Mobile Home Park) in Kenosha County.    As indicated in Table IV-4, one private
sewage treatment plant in the watershed as of 1975 was recommended to be aban-
doned in the initial plan. A subsequent amendment to the plan recommended the
abandonment of two additional plants.    As of 1990, each of these three plants
had been abandoned.   In addition, the Meeter Brothers private plant had also
ceased operation because the industry the plant supported is no longer in
business at this location.   The remaining four private plants were recommended
to be maintained and upgraded to provide effluent quality which would be deter-
mined on a case-by-case basis as part of the Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (WPDES)3
The initial regional water quality management plan included a set of specific
options to be considered in. facilities planning for management of solids gener-
ated at the public and private sewage treatment plants in the Des Plaines River
watershed. These options included methods for processing, transportation, and
utilization or disposal of treatment plant solids. As facility plans are pre-
pared, they are reviewed for conformance with the plan recommendations. Since
sludge management planning is generally carried out as part of the sewage treat-
ment plant facility planning, implementation of this element of the regional
plan generally parallels the municipal and private treatment plant implementa-
tion described above.    One of the principal recommendations under this plan
element concerns the preparation of a plant-specific sludge management plan.
Since 1977, the Department of Natural Resources has included, as a part of the
discharge permitting process, the requirement that the designated management
agencies develop and submit a sludge management report. In addition, the permit
requires that, upon approval and implementation of the sludge management plan,
records be maintained of sludge application sites and quantities, and that the
sites be monitored for adverse environmental, health, or social effects that may
be experienced due to sludge disposal. At the present time, such reports have
been prepared and submitted to the Department, or are under preparation, for
all of the public and private sewage treatment plants currently within the
watershed.
The initial regional water quality management plan recommended that all of the
sanitary sewer service areas identified in the plan be refined and detailed in
cooperation with the local units of government concerned. There were nine sewer
service areas identified within, or partially within, the Des Plaines River
watershed: Bristol-George Lake, Bristol-IH 94 and Pleasant Prairie North, Cross         I
Lake, Hooker-Montgomery Lakes, Kenosha, Paddock Lake, Pleasant Prairie South,
and Union Grove.    By 1990, all of these areas had undergone refinements as
recommended.  The boundaries of the sewer service areas, as currently refined,
are shown on Map IV-3. Table IV-6 lists the plan amendment prepared for each
refinement and the date the Commission adopted the document as an amendment to
the regional water quality management plan.      The table also identifies the
original service area names and the relationship of these service areas to the
service area names following the refinement process. The planned sewer service
areas in the Des Plaines River watershed, as refined through 1993, total about
32 square miles, or about 24 percent of the total watershed area, as shown in

Table IV-6.
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