The Karst Workshop, offered by the Lafayette County Conservation and Zoning Office, was a full house with around 65 attendees. There were two important points conveyed to the audience: an understanding of what a karst landscape means and how this affects your well and drinking water.

The Driftless Area (southwest Wisconsin) is mainly a karst landscape. What does this mean? Karst is a type of landscape formed by the dissolution of its underlying limestone and dolomite (also called carbonate bedrock). The acidic nature of rain and snow (pH of 5.7) causes these rocks to dissolve, creating...