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 | | The state was in a ferment of growth, and the waters that had carried the canoes of native people now transported the produce, building materials and the wastes of a growing nation: soil, manure, sawdust, offal from slaughterhouses, mine drainage, brewery waste, domestic sewage, disease organisms, paper mill waste. |
 | | Wisconsin was one of the first states to gain federal approval to run its own drinking water program, and in 1984 became the first state to pass a comprehensive groundwater law to protect the aquifers that supply three-quarters of all Wisconsin residents with their drinking water. |
 | | State legislature approves act to authorize the governor of Wisconsin to appoint commissioners to examine certain lands in Polk County (The Dalles of the St. Croix River), Wisconsin to become a state park. |
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