And what that would do to us is it would make our farmers get rid of what are called retention ponds that collect runoff from agricultural waste. And it would. They would have to get rid of these retention ponds, meaning that The water that runs off these fields would wind up in the Mississippi river basin. It's an unintended consequence. And the reason it's unintended and not thought of by the EPA is because they don't live in Wisconsin. (00:42–00:47)
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