The Brodhead Water Quality Trading program began as a wastewater project in a small Wisconsin community of 3,276 struggling to meet new stringent water quality based effluent limits (WQBELs) for phosphorus. When the new limits were released in 2010 and the City of Brodhead’s Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permit reissued in 2012, community leaders knew they were up against a compliance challenge.
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