Clean water shapes daily life here. This report checks our progress across the Fox and Wolf River basins and the Winnebago system. It pulls together data, projects, and partner work so residents, planners, and decision makers can see what is working and where attention is needed next.

2025 Highlights

Stormwater projects prevented about 9.3 million lbs of sediment and nearly 21,000 lbs of phosphorus from reaching the Lower Fox River. In Winnebago Waterways, projects kept about 5.3 million lbs of sediment and over 2,000 lbs of phosphorus out of local waters.

In the 2024/25 season, continuous cover reached 24% of acres in Winnebago Waterways and 28% in the Lower Fox River. Most fields still went bare.

On Plum Creek, partners restored 1.2 miles of streambank and added over 44 million gallons of water storage with a phosphorus filter.

Since 2020 and into 2025, partners repaired more than 16,000 feet of streambank in Winnebago Waterways and nearly 23,000 feet along the Lower Fox River.

NEW Water’s upstream partnership approach has achieved about 82% of its phosphorus-reduction goal and about 166% of its sediment-reduction goal for its first permit term.