Stearns v. State Committee on Water Pollution

On October 19, 1949, pursuant to the provisions of sec. 144.05 (1), Stats., the Wisconsin Committee on Water Pollution (hereinafter called the “committee”) ordered the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (hereinafter called the “district”) to submit plans for eliminating the discharge of untreated sewage or treated sewage effluent into Lakes Monona, Waubesa, and Kegonsa. The judgment which affirmed said order on review was affirmed by this court in Madison Metropolitan Sewerage Dist. v. Committee (1951), 260 Wis. 229, 50 N. W. (2d) 424, which upheld the validity of sec. 144.05 (1).

Pursuant…