The Wisconsin Groundwater Coordinating Council (GCC) was established by Wisconsin’s Groundwater Law of 1984, and is made up of representatives of state agencies with groundwater protection responsibilities and state funding allocations. These agencies include the University of Wisconsin System (UWS) and the departments of Natural Resources, Safety & Professional Services, and Agriculture, Trade, & Consumer Protection.

The GCC provides consistency and coordination among multiple state programs in funding groundwater monitoring and research. To better target groundwater research funding, these state programs agreed to establish the Wisconsin Groundwater Research and Monitoring Program (WGRMP), which features an annual joint solicitation to identify needs and priorities of the various agencies, facilitate proposal writing for researchers, streamline the review process for agency funding decisions, curtail duplication across agencies and researchers, improve coordination among agencies and researchers, and enhance communication among the agencies and investigators. Collectively, since its inception, the WGRMP has resulted in funding for over 400 groundwater research and monitoring projects, helping to establish Wisconsin as an international leader in groundwater research.

WRI funds a significant portion of the projects submitted to the WGRMP with UWS funding. In addition, WRI plays a lead role in coordinating the WGRMP joint solicitation – a rigorous review process – and project reporting and in making all technical reports available through our institute’s library and website.

This page contains the repository for WGRMP projects funded by various state programs. Many projects included in the repository also contain links to or PDFs of project reports and associated publications.