John Wetenkamp is a service hydrologist with the National Weather Service office out of La Crosse.

Just more than 50 farmers and other concerned citizens from the Driftless Region, ranging from Platteville to Buffalo County and between, testified at the two hearings put on by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) on Wednesday, Sept. 4, in Onalaska.

Vernon, Monroe and La Crosse counties will move forward together with applying for a grant to study two watersheds above flood-control dams that breached in the August 2018 floods.

Perhaps it’s no surprise, sitting at the headwaters of the Kickapoo, Baraboo and the Little La Crosse rivers and Coon Creek, that Monroe County is taking a proactive lead in fostering citizen education and discussion about the flood-control dams that breached early in the morning on Aug. 28.