Witzel v. Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District

Some historical perspective may be useful: The committee on water pollution is a public agency created under sec. 144.52, Stats., with powers and duties prescribed by statute. For brevity hereinafter we will call it the “committee.” Discharge of sewage is processed by Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District, which is a quasi-public or quasi-municipal corporation. We will refer to it as the “district.” The district operates sewage-disposal plants called the Burke plant and the Nine Springs plant. After such processing the effluent is discharged from the plants into various small lakes south of…