LAKE MENDOTA DRIVE

The City of Madison has decided to reconstruct the last mile of Lake Mendota Drive which runs along the southwestern shore of Lake Mendota, one of the largest lakes in Southern Wisconsin... Beyond the sensitivity of being located on a fragile lakeside ecosystem on a premier southern Wisconsin lake, historic Lake Mendota Drive also sits at the bottom of a 2,279 acre watershed that includes Well 14 which pumps over 2 million gallons of drinking water each day. That water is distributed to Madison's westside neighborhoods of Spring Harbor, Glen Oak Hills, Hill Farms, Sunset Village, Regent, Dudgeon-Monroe, the Village of Shorewood Hills and parts of the UW campus... Lake Mendota and Well 14 already have water quality problems related to high salinity which is a result of salt being spread on west side streets in volume that eventually works its way into the ground water, and into Lake Mendota. The contamination of Well 14 has occurred primarily since 2000 and accelerated between 2015 to..